Not having seen much of Chantal Joffe‘s work in the flesh I was expecting everything to be as large scale as this painting above. I was therefore surprised at the domestic size of the majority of paintings in her exhibition, Story at Victoria Miro.
The intimacy of familial relationships was echoed in this use of a smaller scale format – it felt a bit like eavesdropping on a private conversation.
Inspired in part by family photographs, this show is about lives lived, the complexities of families and their interconnection.
