In his show at Pilar Corrias Conduit Street, Sedrick Chisom uses coarsely woven fabric stapled to a frame as his painting surface. That softness and irregularity reminded me of the bark fabric used by his contemporary Michael Armitage.
His imagined alternative universe references imagery from the American Civil War. Reading the text below gives context of this unsettling world, one in which white people are vying to be the most pure.
Sound familiar?
There’s a voluptuousness about the colour in these works, even as they evoke toxicity.
Unnerving yet seductive.
