It must be said; I do have a penchant for the curating of Siobhan Wall!
Quiet/Stilte is to be seen until the 14th of August - I am still undecided and sorely tempted to attend the finnisage, despite the challenges to do so!
Unfortunately the gallery still have info about the last exhibition on the website - hopefully that will change soon!
This exhibition satisfies my heart in many different ways - Firstly because it is three women, secondly, thirdly enz. because the contrasts between the works, the quality of the works, the calibre of the artists and the emotional gamut that they draw the observer through are of the highest order.
The paintings of Tamar Rozenblat are evocative, intricate, monochrome, adventures that throw you into a weird, but strangely recognisable landscape or flick your eyes, is it representation of bubbles, DNA, ideas, concepts? all of them, what ever you like. Inside and also in the garden the black backgrounds, net'ie or stark outlines tell little stories as do the works of all these artists
Sujata Majumdar is one of very few photographers who work is without question art. The photos look like paintings. Simply mounted, layered landscapes. Representations of moments, spaces. Subtle observations that seem to speak.
Siobhan Wall's work at this exhibition is powerful, intense, dark, sombre, sometimes a bit scary and again sooo recognisable. The moments you know you are falling apart and just have to keep going, keep it together, blur yourself to serve your surroundings. Or maybe that is just what I see.
This is an exhibition I would really like to recommend women go and see, having said that there is no earthly reason why men shouldn't go or wouldn't appreciate in the same way.
Even at an opening, surrounded by chatter and laughter and the clinking and slurping of drinks each thoughtfully chosen and placed piece, pulls you into a moment where the background noise disappears.
All the pieces in this show placed before me the recognition of the importance of silence and quiet, making their absence and the challenge of finding and creating quiet moments in our lives so poignant, so present, so current, so real.
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