These newest works look to the abstraction of Georgia O’Keeffe, the interiority of Félix Vallotton, the austere poetry of H.D., and the collective isolation and reflection on mortality brought by the global pandemic.
“High above the trees in the dark, taking in the life of the forest at night, but also knowing that you’re responsible to sound the alarm if fire appears, but that it likely won’t, but still, it could.”
Al Qasimi interrogates the roles and uses of photography with careful skepticism, posing that today’s visual fluency can often be too trusting of images.
“This show is composed of sticks and a video.
Sticks are foraged branches, from near my studio.
They are Nature’s pure gift, they’re products of the Sun.
They grew to their zenith, then fell, one by one.” — Sutter-Shudo
Elene Chantladze’s exhibition at Modern Art includes a selection of both new and earlier work, showing her breadth of painterly technique and, material, exploration.
Martinez’s latest group of paintings, many executed during the lockdown of 2020, are works in which he practically takes stock of all he has thus far achieved in his art.
The exhibition gathers Lucas’ new and older sculptures which tirelessly challenge gender stereotypes and confront the viewer with investigations of sexuality and identity in a playful and ironic way.
Lucy’s paintings are loquacious despite seeming unassuming. They thrust us towards the edge of a precipice right where our inhibitions ends and our subconscious begins. Suddenly, we find ourselves in the entrails of a complex labyrinth where the walls are moving…