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.
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Kevin Brisco Jr
★★☆☆☆
On until 18 November 2023
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Anna Barriball
Anna Barriball
New Drawings
★★☆☆☆
The eyes may be the windows of the soul. To make an aphorism of the reverse needs more than shadow-play.
Grant Falardeau, Rimantė Mikulovičiūtė, Benjamin Sasserson, Bu Shi, Dylan Williams
Grant Falardeau, Rimantė Mikulovičiūtė, Benjamin Sasserson, Bu Shi, Dylan Williams
A light here required a shadow
★★★☆☆
Catch the wrong end of the spectrum and forever remain obscured.
Zyad Menk
Zyad Menk
Scar Tissue
★★☆☆☆
History’s scrapheap with no interpretative powers.
Open Group
Open Group
Repeat After Me II
★★★☆☆
The applause was rapturous. A sense of tragedy, however, was altogether missing.
Tesfaye Urgessa
Tesfaye Urgessa
Prejudice and Belonging
★★★★★
Urgessa’s figures are contorted in love, death, or merely life.
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello
Entre El Día Y La Noche
★☆☆☆☆
If only they were smaller, Piñera Ballo’s paintings would be a great hit in the shopping centre gallery your ex-army uncle just opened in Surrey. He’s gambling with the family’s savings, you condescend, but so is Pace with their show.…
