A sequence of work grounded in reminiscence by artist Sarah Muirhead. Just lately on show at Pontone Gallery in London final month, Muirhead newest works transfer away from the type of portraiture she is understood for to discover the physique, shifting her focus to haunting particulars like palms, toes, and jewelry. Right here the intention is much less about portraying topics as they had been, however moderately, how they linger within the thoughts. Dramatized, distorted, and embellished.
“The act of portray, like remembering, turns into sanctified not as a result of it reveals fact, however due to the care and a spotlight it requires. The devotional high quality all through this work will not be non secular, precisely, however borrows the aesthetic language of reverence: chandeliers, glowing pores and skin, sacred gestures. But, that is devotion laced with humour and self-awareness, flirting with the distant cousins of kitsch and fetish. It straddles the road between tenderness and distance; vulnerability and efficiency…. ‘I noticed you. Even if you happen to didn’t see me again.’”
