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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Lara Favaretto
Lara Favaretto
★☆☆☆☆
Burning the art student’s undergraduate essays won’t solve the problem.
Thanasis Deligiannis, Yannis Michalopoulos
Thanasis Deligiannis, Yannis Michalopoulos
Xirómero/Dryland
★★★★☆
It’s Sunday in the village. And the main square is deserted.
Michael Simpson
Michael Simpson
★★★★☆
In this meditation of surface disguised as a study of objects, neither is a truer likeness of the events.
James White
James White
Every Corner Abandoned Too Soon
★★★★☆
Paint that does this to a pile of plastic coat hangers contends with any reality.
Yin Xiuzhen
Yin Xiuzhen
Heart to Heart
★★☆☆☆
Xiuzhen remediates commodities, turning second-hand fabrics into ‘immersive’ experiences.
Ron Nagle
Ron Nagle
Conniption
★★★★★
Less is more, as the saying goes. Nagle’s porcelain and resin maquettes are the bare minimum.
