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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Miranda Forrester
Miranda Forrester
Arrival
★★★☆☆
Forrester’s project is timely when foundational concepts like ‘mother’ and their ‘as-though’ counterparts are readily confused.
Siobhan Liddell
Siobhan Liddell
Been and Gone
★★☆☆☆
A twee aesthetics native to a grandmother’s mantlepiece collection of tourist souvenirs and devotional figurines.
Soufiane Ababri
Soufiane Ababri
Their mouths were full of bumblebees
★★☆☆☆
Ababri’s paintings for the Grindr generation are more cartoonish than they are from life.
Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
★☆☆☆☆
Abramović wants to destroy all performance and all women until she holds the monopoly over stage death.
Ignacy Czwartos
Ignacy Czwartos
Polonia Uncensored
★★☆☆☆
Czwartos’ painting proves little and his sign-writer’s hand loses art history’s bet.
Marisa Krangwiwat Holmes, Shamiran Istifan, Tasneem Sarkez
Marisa Krangwiwat Holmes, Shamiran Istifan, Tasneem Sarkez
Saccharine Symbols
★★★☆☆
Meaning parts with the image in this exhibition, never to return. Post-structuralism triumphs.
