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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Christopher Aque, Alexandre Khondji
Christopher Aque, Alexandre Khondji
★★★★★
Aesthetic cognition or crossword puzzles only rarely bring such perverse pleasure.
Wilhelm Sasnal
Wilhelm Sasnal
★★★☆☆
Only in flights of anger does this vision come close to becoming believable.
Amilia Graham
Amilia Graham
The Crust
★★☆☆☆
Each show lasts no more than three hours, and it’s bring-your-own booze.
Abel Auer
Abel Auer
The shadow of tomorrow draws an ancient silhouette
★★★☆☆
Auer is more interested in the fate of painting than humanity and thus stands apart from the army of zealots who make eco art today.
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.
Divine Southgate-Smith
Divine Southgate-Smith
Navigator
★☆☆☆☆
It is too late to save the regime, yet too early to mourn it.
