Murmurations #1 - 5 (2021) oil on canvas, 20 x 26cm each. Installation view in group show, “Holding Hands”, March 4 - April 24 2021, Union Gallery, London
Mirror (2021) oil on canvas, 76 x 90cm. Installation view in group show, “In Momentum”, 12 Nov -18 Dec 2021, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
Book of Life (2021) Oil on canvas, 200 x 240cm. Installation view, Art Basel HK, 21 - 23 May 2021
IN MY HEAD
Yavuz Gallery Booth 405, The Armory Show, New York City
9 - 12 September 2021
Consisting of 108 self-portraits, “In My Head” is a monumental and immersive installation reflecting the artist’s ongoing interests in the physicality of the body, as well as how our human experiences, both online and offline, are being reshaped in the current moment.
Through vignettes of everyday life, the vocabulary of the mundane is transformed into a site of spectacle, a cabinet of curiosities in which audiences are implicated as flaneur and voyeur. Individually isolated against surreal hues evoking both natural and artificial light, each portrait is painted from memory, evoking both the artist’s lived experience as well as the artist’s fertile imagination. Oscillating between restlessness and desire, they capture the ephemerality of a collective psyche, isolated and estranged in our own skins, moving endlessly between online avatars, filtered profile images, apps, chats, and real-life interaction.
