There’s joy in geometry. To make his tableaux, Relph poked circular and rectangular holes in packaging cardboard he found in the alley behind a Manhattan Comme de Garçons store. He added to this some stickers and stencils and thus made the perfect wall decoration for a graphic designer’s dining room. But there’s little for the eye to hang on and none of the punk culture of Relph’s earlier practice emerges from the works. Is the clothing brand iconic or ironic? Why is the cardboard so clean? It would be more fun to play with a child’s wooden shapes toy – a close relative of these plates – than to figure this out.
Nick Relph Fils, ta vision!
Nick Relph
Fils, ta vision!
★☆☆☆☆
On until 28 October 2023
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Pope.L
Pope.L
Hospital
★★★☆☆
This project lands in the joke section of Animal Farm and not as a prophecy of the Jan 6th insurrection.
Xie Nanxing
Xie Nanxing
Hello, Portrait!
★★★★☆
Looking at Xie’s portraits is a little like wearing a virtual reality headset over only one eye.
Dominique Fung
Dominique Fung
(Up)Rooted
★★☆☆☆
All this tries to be macabre and surreal like in Bosch or Miyazaki but is instead laughably twee.
Nanténé Traoré
Nanténé Traoré
She says it's the high energy
★★☆☆☆
Bodies clash with lights in front of Traoré’s Narcissus camera.
Siobhan Liddell
Siobhan Liddell
Been and Gone
★★☆☆☆
A twee aesthetics native to a grandmother’s mantlepiece collection of tourist souvenirs and devotional figurines.
Lutz Bacher
Lutz Bacher
AYE!
★★★★☆
There’s joy in repetition. There’s joy in repetition. There’s joy in repetition. There’s joy in repetition. There’s joy in repetition. There’s joy in repetition.
