Tag: photography
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A Photographer with a fearless spirit
A visit to Tate Britain’s Lee Miller exhibition reveals an artist defined by poetic vision and fearless independence. Tracing her journey from fashion model to surrealist collaborator and war correspondent, the show finally gives full weight to one of the twentieth century’s most uncompromising photographic voices.
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A journey through Kiki Smith’s artistic universe
Visiting Kiki Smith’s exhibition at Timothy Taylor Gallery felt like stepping into a magical, self-contained universe shaped by nature, mythology, and spirituality. Through sculpture, drawing, and print, Smith explores the relationship between the human body and the natural world, transforming the gallery into an enchanted space that invites reflection on vulnerability, interconnection, and ancient narratives…
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Arte Povera at the Serpentine Gallery
Giuseppe Penone’s Thoughts in the Roots at the Serpentine Gallery transforms the exhibition space into an extension of Kensington Gardens. Through sculpture, scent, sound, and material, Penone invites us to slow down and rediscover our connection with trees, nature, and time itself.
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Paintings for a Blooming Consciousness
A review of The Greenhouse, Inka Essenhigh’s exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery in London. The article examines her lush, imaginative paintings—rich in botanical forms, mythology, and symbolism—as meditations on perception, consciousness, and the enduring power of painting to envision alternative worlds.
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Visceral Sculptures in the Turbine Hall
A powerful review of Open Wound, Mire Lee’s Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. This article examines how Lee transforms the vast industrial space into a visceral, body-like environment where machinery, vulnerability, and human labour intersect, evoking themes of precarity, decay, and care.
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Turning adversity into creativity
Jason and the Adventure of 254 by Jason Wilsher-Mills at the Wellcome Collection is a joyful and moving exhibition that transforms childhood disability and adversity into vibrant creativity. Blending memory, humour, and imagination, the artist invites viewers to reflect on resilience, identity, and the origins of artistic expression.
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Ten timber sculptures
Set among the trees of Kensington Gardens, Georg Baselitz’s exhibition immerses visitors in monumental timber sculptures that explore memory, materiality, and the tension between figuration and abstraction.
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One step further for post-structuralism
Maquinaciones at the Museo Reina Sofía examines post-structuralist thought through contemporary art, exploring how Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas on machines, power and resistance shape artistic practice today.
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A lost era
Soheila Sokhanvari’s ‘Rebel Rebel’ at the Barbican’s Curve Gallery presents twenty-seven portraits of pre-revolutionary Iranian feminist icons, blending Persian miniature painting with a powerful reflection on women’s history and cultural resistance.
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In search of infinity
This review of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night explores the artist’s celebrated portraiture, her unique approach to depicting Black figures, and why this Tate Britain exhibition has become essential viewing for contemporary art lovers.