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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Erick Meyenberg
Erick Meyenberg
Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre
★☆☆☆☆
Whatever the purpose of this confusion, it’s not to be found in the gallery.
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.
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.…
Tyler Eash
Tyler Eash
All the World's Horses
★★☆☆☆
The artist must choose which ground is best ceded.
Abdullah Al Saadi
Abdullah Al Saadi
Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia
★★★☆☆
The exhibition’s user experience rivals that of the Apple Store.
Stephen Willats
Stephen Willats
Time Tumbler
★★★★☆
Willats orders fragments of time, matter, and space into data packets on one side of the flow chart and puts them to use on the other.
