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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Megan Rooney
Megan Rooney
Echoes & Hours
★★☆☆☆
For all this bravado, Rooney’s compositions offer only a very surface experience of abstraction.
Shu Lea Cheang
Shu Lea Cheang
Scifi New Queer Cinema, 1994-2023
★★☆☆☆
With material this gratuitously explicit and a curator this absent, it’s a miracle that this project wasn’t shut down by the licencing, or indeed art-historical authorities.
Armando D. Cosmos
Armando D. Cosmos
Nothing New Under the Sun
★★★☆☆
Cosmos wants to redefine STEM as the alliance of science, theosophy, engineering, and myth.
Victor Man
Victor Man
The Absence That We Are
★★★☆☆
Man’s colours are only a small nudge of the wheel from Tretchikoff’s infamous portrait of the Chinese girl.
TJ Wilcox
TJ Wilcox
Hiding in Plain Sight
★★☆☆☆
Vanity proceeds in circles.
Manfred Pernice, Megan Plunknett
Manfred Pernice, Megan Plunknett
>anticorpo<
★★★★☆
Such ‘80s nostalgia for meaning before history’s end is a comfort blanket.
