This show could have been solid five-star material. But I only got to see it through the gallery’s window because the staff didn’t let me come in a quarter of an hour before their official preview even though the door was wide open. That’s for the best because what I did see – paintings of foliage familiar in style from Ikea wallpapers that the press release claims are metaphors for “colonisation and migration of bodies across the Atlantic” – deserved even less attention.
Kevin Brisco Jr But I Hear There Are New Suns
Kevin Brisco Jr
But I Hear There Are New Suns
★★☆☆☆
On until 18 November 2023
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Odoteres Ricardo de Ozias
Odoteres Ricardo de Ozias
★★★☆☆
These images are perfectly charming even to a viewer possessed of a cold anthropological eye. The troubling part is in realising just how far ‘outside’ the ideas are.
HelenA Pritchard
HelenA Pritchard
The Homeless Mind
★★★☆☆
Death by debris falling from building façades is an artist’s occupational hazard.
Tamara Henderson
Tamara Henderson
Green in the Grooves
★★★★☆
The whole thing feels like a remake of Wind in the Willows directed by a garden gnome.
Nicole Eisenman
Nicole Eisenman
What Happened
★★★☆☆
There’s a Bosch hellscape dedicated to Trump and a whole “basket of deplorables” polishing their guns in a prepper cell.
Abdullah Al Saadi
Abdullah Al Saadi
Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia
★★★☆☆
The exhibition’s user experience rivals that of the Apple Store.
Dominique Fung
Dominique Fung
(Up)Rooted
★★☆☆☆
All this tries to be macabre and surreal like in Bosch or Miyazaki but is instead laughably twee.
