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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Iris Touliatou
Iris Touliatou
Outfits
★★★☆☆
These gestures remind the gallery that it is a social space. Unfortunately, they also inadvertently point to its sorry end.
Amilia Graham
Amilia Graham
The Crust
★★☆☆☆
Each show lasts no more than three hours, and it’s bring-your-own booze.
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
It Will End In Tears
★★☆☆☆
With the right lighting, this story could be a mid-century colonial classic.
Adriano Costa
Adriano Costa
ax-d. us. t
★★★☆☆
Form triumphs over detritus.
Eva Kot’átková
Eva Kot’átková
The heart of a giraffe in captivity is twelve kilos lighter
★★☆☆☆
The giraffe’s taxidermied corpse is host to an ideological stunt.
The Otolith Group
The Otolith Group
I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another
★★☆☆☆
The exhibition is a private memorial for Etel Adnan accessible only to members of the art world’s inner circle. And that’s a pity.
