KUDZANAI-VIOLET HWAMI – A MAKING OF GHOSTS

Posted on 2023-04-24

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s paintings combine visual fragments from a myriad of sources, such as online and archival images, and personal photographs, which collapse past and present. Autobiographical in nature and ‘dealing with internal and private curiosities,’ her works address how in a digitised world of infinite images we construct a sense of self, or experience and try to understand one another in a complex social reality.
Conceived across both levels of the gallery, A Making of Ghosts, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, features paintings and large-scale photographic images – some presented as floor-to-ceiling vinyls, others suspended in the space-sharing references including family photographs that act as touchstones for thoughts about grief, its action on memory and its fragmentary and disorienting effects.

Opposite – Murapi, 2023

Exhibition runs through to May 13th, 2023

Victoria Miro
16 Wharf Road
N1 7RW
London

www.victoria-miro.com

  

JONATHAN GARDNER – DUSK

Posted on 2023-04-17

Jonathan Gardner presents Dusk, an exhibition of eight new oil paintings rendered with a surreal approach to form and perspective. Scenes within scenes deconstruct planes into isolated storylines that recall cinematic motifs, creating tension that disorients and entices. Using architectural devices to warp space and time, compositions hover in a transient space between a dream and the ordinary as dusk turns into darkness.

Opposite – The Arranger, 2023

Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2023

Casey Kaplan
121 West 27th Street
10001
New York

caseykaplangallery.com

  

HANNAH LEVY – CRUTCH

Posted on 2023-04-17

Hannah Levy presents Crutch, an exhibition of new wall-based and freestanding sculptures that exist as extensions of the body. Absorbed in the material encounter of two seemingly opposing mediums, Levy introduces glass into her practice. A mix of traditional and experimental processes are used to alter, slump, swell and sag the glass as it submits to its metal opponent. Concentrating her source material, which spans vegetables, medical equipment, prosthetics, and furniture, on forms that implicate mobility aids, Levy considers our physical and psychological relationships to our built environment.
The works function like prophecies: they are symbols of the shared anxieties of our bodily condition, acknowledging the universal yet unspoken truth that we are fallible and impermanent.

Opposite – Untitled, 2023

Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2023

Casey Kaplan
121 West 27th Street
10001
New York

caseykaplangallery.com

  

ROB PRUITT – B&W NARCISSUS

Posted on 2023-04-17

The exhibition begins with Food Sloshing in Baby’s Mouth / Sunlight Through Window (2022), where a baby is being fed breakfast as rays of sunshine beam through the window and onto the scene. A myriad of sensory experiences are highlighted: the warmth of the morning sun, the food and flavours being energetically consumed, the hands of the mother or caretaker as they gently yet firmly support the rapidly growing body. This illustrates the beginning, where an equation begins to be assembled–what it means to be alive. In attending to what Josephs considers the ‘dream of reality’, our experience of the world becomes a dream and a seductive illusion. Therein, the human subject experiences something akin to an education on how our modes of interpretation can materialise within this new sphere of consciousness.

Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2023

MASSIMODECARLO
Pièce Unique
57 Rue de Turenne
75003 Paris

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

HALEY JOSEPHS – EVERY PART OF THE DREAM

Posted on 2022-11-21

The exhibition begins with Food Sloshing in Baby’s Mouth / Sunlight Through Window (2022), where a baby is being fed breakfast as rays of sunshine beam through the window and onto the scene. A myriad of sensory experiences are highlighted: the warmth of the morning sun, the food and flavours being energetically consumed, the hands of the mother or caretaker as they gently yet firmly support the rapidly growing body. This illustrates the beginning, where an equation begins to be assembled–what it means to be alive. In attending to what Josephs considers the ‘dream of reality’, our experience of the world becomes a dream and a seductive illusion. Therein, the human subject experiences something akin to an education on how our modes of interpretation can materialise within this new sphere of consciousness.

Opposite – Golden Valley, 2022

Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2022

Almine Rech
Grosvenor Hill, Broadbent House
W1K 3JH
London

www.alminerech.com

  

TONY SWAIN – SIGHT DESERTED

Posted on 2022-11-21

Swain alters, merges, and obscures printed pictures with painted ones, using this material support as a space to reconfigure and overpaint the original information. His paintings conjure phantastic images and representations via repetition, the layering paint over the printed page, and the sewing together of newspaper parts to create utopian panoramas.
Swain’s collection of primary material is categorized in his studio, and consciously logged to be used in future works. His tearing techniques have been perfected to achieve a certain finish in the configuration of images, clean smooth edges for curvatures and jagged rips for mountain ranges. Three new panel works are installed alongside the works on paper, along with a historic panel work from 1990, spanning the development of Swain’s technique and working style.

Opposite – Clouded Room, 2022

Exhibition runs through to January 14th, 2023

The Modern Institute
14-20 Osborne Street
G1 5QN Glasgow
Scotland

www.themoderninstitute.com