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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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.
Mohammad Ghazali
Mohammad Ghazali
Trilogy: Then…
★★★★☆
Repetition and framing are photography’s greatest tricks.
Pakui Hardware, Maria Terese Rožanskaité
Pakui Hardware, Maria Terese Rožanskaité
Inflammation
★★★☆☆
One of the novelties in Venice is the artwork that looks good but on reflection isn’t.
Oh, the Storm
Oh, the Storm
★☆☆☆☆
This exhibitions is trying to explain the concept of ‘crazy paving’ to a blind man. It’s impossible to tell where a work ends and the wall begins.
Grant Falardeau, Rimantė Mikulovičiūtė, Benjamin Sasserson, Bu Shi, Dylan Williams
Grant Falardeau, Rimantė Mikulovičiūtė, Benjamin Sasserson, Bu Shi, Dylan Williams
A light here required a shadow
★★★☆☆
Catch the wrong end of the spectrum and forever remain obscured.
Gina Fischli
Gina Fischli
Love Love Love
★★★★☆
What good it is to be best in show when the competition is lame, crooked, or outright fake?
