Gifford’s lazy assemblages of textiles and oil paint – applied so thickly that it’s a miracle the canvases don’t bring the gallery walls down with them – are interested in little but their own form. A handful, as if to expose the artist’s obsessive yet underdeveloped idea of a masterstroke, incorporate domestic objects like the detritus of the laundry room or scraps of the bedroom curtain. Whatever stories these compositions bore in the artist’s studio, in the collector’s home they’ll only gather dust.
Lydia Gifford Low Anchored Cloud
Lydia Gifford
Low Anchored Cloud
★★☆☆☆
On until 13 April 2024
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Aria Dean
Aria Dean
Abattoir
★★★☆☆
Visuals of her own making overpower the artist.
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swell of spæc(i)es
★★☆☆☆
Ntjam’s Biennale presentation has all the hallmarks of world-building ambition. For one, it boasts two separate locations, one dedicated solely to the work’s public programme. The main feature is housed in a giant purpose-made structure which occupies a third of…
David Muenzer
David Muenzer
Teen
★★★☆☆
Muenzer’s messy show bedroom actually is someone’s messy bedroom most nights of the week.
Aziza Kadyri
Aziza Kadyri
Don't Miss the Cue
★★★★☆
This dissonance might be intentional. If it isn’t, so much for the better.
Maja Malou Lyse
Maja Malou Lyse
Things to Come
★★★★★
Eros is dead. Long live Eros.
Oriol Vilanova
Oriol Vilanova
Los restos
★★★★☆
The dance of constellations that make up the Western civilisation inspires awe.
