Tag: London
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Despite its far-reaching geographical and historical subject, the themes of home and belonging make the eponymous “ground” unmistakably East London, the area in which it rightfully won awards last year. It should come as no surprise that The Ground Beneath Me, a project consisting of the filmic work Legacy of a Heart’s Injury (2026–) and…
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Rivers’ filmic trialogue presents a dystopia of language and representation, flickering ceaselessly between reverent and polemical. The pre-fab screening room that takes up the majority of Kate McGarry limits light ascetically. The black-and-white film doesn’t offer a lot of light to reflect off the mostly black interior. The only source of light, fitted in a…
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Ain Bailey presents an exemplary demonstration of cultural reception and memory with The Jamaica Project. The centrepiece of Ain Bailey’s The Jamaica Project, a new iPhone-shot travelogue of her trip to Jamaica, 5C Jacques Road: Part One, plays on vast, floating screen; with the crowds that surround it on opening night, it feels like discovering…
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Goldmiths CCA pieces together a the radical history of Paper Tiger Television in a recent retrospective on the collective. I am someone who enjoys nothing more than returning home after a long day at work, sinking into my sofa, and letting the soft, hazy glow of whatever trash TV show I’m currently consumed by occupy…
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For his 15th show at the historic venue, Lisson Gallery exhibit a selection of arborous works by the late Canadian artist Rodney Graham. From camera-obscura works, to painting, conceptual sculpture and video, the multi-media exhibition captures a groundbreaking artist’s time in history as well as nature. The main gallery of Lisson’s Bell Street location, which…
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It is the first sunny day of the year in London. The walk across the Millennium Bridge to the Tate Modern feels euphoric. London is not always a place I feel I belong, but in the sun, the city feels like the only place I could ever be. The evening before, my dad had cold…
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If you have ever felt like the rear end of a car is frowning at you, or if you have a special item of clothing that you wear for good luck, it is likely that you have experienced apophenia. This is the human tendency to perceive patterns and form conclusions based around unrelated sets of…
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As the door of Victoria Miro opens to reveal the bright lights of the expansive gallery, the viewer is immediately drawn in, like a moth to a flame. The fluorescent glow beckons, and it may take a moment to notice the dimly lit stairs tucked to the left. With no prescribed order to follow, one…
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Multimedia artist Joe Moss turns Matt’s Gallery into a playroom for surveillance technology in his latest intertextual, multi-verse installation. Moss’ oeuvre often deals in sculptures, particularly smaller models that evoke themes of cuteness and vulnerability. In Automated Fantasy Procedure, two small drones take their place, flying overhead, recording a path shown on the two screens,…
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Umi Ishihara’s solo exhibition Nocturnal Melody, her first in Europe, follows with a curious ambivalence the lives and ambitions of two dancers in a Shibuya gentleman’s club, inviting viewers into Tokyo’s seedy alternative nightlife scene. Across two galleries, Ishihara builds a colourful, kaleidoscopic account of this nocturnal world. She intersperses documentary footage with direct camera addresses by…
