Roe Etheridge

Happy Birthday Louise Parker II

★★☆☆☆

On until 28 September 2024

For nearly thirty years, Etheridge has shot fashion, editorial, and what Gagosian calls “studio” photography, as though to avoid the association with “art”. Etheridge was a latecomer to the game of image semiotics. He nonetheless carved out a practice by mashing up symbols and registers. Meticulously styled product shots appear in his viewfinder as readily as candid pin-up girls. Coke bottles share colour spaces with touching family portraits. His folio is so eclectic that when a duck finds its way onto the studio’s infinity curve, nobody flaps a feather.

The success of these images relies on the active disavowal of context beyond their frames. But in this tiny pass-by display, Etheridge’s method finds an extreme. There isn’t enough information in the assembly for the mind to notice what it is not being given. The prints’ glossy richness reigns.


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Yoko Ono at Tate ★★★☆☆

Yoko Ono

Music of the Mind

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This show will sell tickets. But it won’t change the weather.

Asami Shoji et al., Gestures of Resistance at A.I. ★★★★☆

Asami Shoji et al.

Gestures of Resistance

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The figures appear as though in x-ray and helplessly foretell their own ends.

The Ear is the Eye of the Soul, Holy See pavilion in Venice ★★★☆☆

Alexander Kluge et al.

The Ear is the Eye of the Soul

★★★☆☆

Nuns singing, musicological trivia, and Comic Sans.

Oisín Byrne, Not Marble at Amanda Wilkinson ★★☆☆☆

Oisín Byrne

Not Marble

★★☆☆☆

Byrne has a type. Or rather, he’ll paint you into one.

Prem Sahib: Kin at Phillida Reid ★★★★☆

Prem Sahib

Kin

★★★★☆

Animal pity turns into animal cruelty, and bang, the mutt’s a goner.

Geumhyung Jeong, Under Construction at ICA ★☆☆☆☆

Geumhyung Jeong

Under Construction

★☆☆☆☆

This tech-optimism might have entertained gallery-goers twenty years ago.

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