Christian Marclay’s video montage Doors, from 2022, made its London debut at White Cube in September and I was determined to catch it. The video played in the downstairs gallery while a collection of sculptures were on display upstairs. I liked their playfulness aligned with mathematics. The inside-outsidedness of beautifully sliced and stacked doors. All […]
Artists
People at Modern Art
This exhibition, People at Modern Art Helmet Row, gave me the chance to see some fabulous paintings and drawings normally unavailable to the public as so many are in private collections. Here are a few of my favourites. The deeply unsettling Painting Him Out by Paula Rego The intensity of gaze in Alice Neel‘s portrait […]
Sarah Sze at the Waiting Room, Peckham Rye
Given the photos I’d seen (as above) I thought there was only one way to view the recent ArtAngel project by Sarah Sze at the Waiting Rooms, Peckham Rye. Still images can only give a hint of a constantly changing visual experience so please click the link to see the Artangel official video. The hemisphere […]
Bandaloop: Resurgum at St Paul’s Cathedral. GDIF.
Part of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (GDIF) this year, aerial dance company Bandaloop performed Resurgam (latin for I shall rise) on the South side of St Paul’s Cathedral. Look at the bird carved in stone. I think the phoenix rising from the fire refers to the rebuilding of the cathedral after the Great […]
Public art by Veronica Ryan OBE at Hackney Central, London
These sculptures were unveiled a couple of years ago to honour the Windrush generation but this was the first time I’d had a proper look at them in situ. Custard Apple, Breadfruit and Soursop are typical Caribbean fruit remembered from Veronica Ryan OBE‘s childhood visits to Ridley Road Market in Dalston, London. These are accessible […]
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern. Post 2 of 2
Here are a few more photos from A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography currently at Tate Modern. The studio shots above are by Ruth Ginika Ossai. Her sitters choose which backdrop they want from her stock inspired by Nollywood films or Igbo gospel music videos. I loved the streetwise posed teenage boys in front […]