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Bobbi Essers, The World At Our Command, 2024
Exhibition
Bobbi Essers. The World at Our Command
28 Sep 2024 – 8 Dec 2024
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- 3 Hanover Square
- Mayfair
- London
England - W1S 1HD
- United Kingdom
Unit is pleased to announce the premier UK solo exhibition of Dutch rising star Bobbi Essers.
About
Coinciding with Frieze London, the exhibition follows several of Essers’ notable European institutional presentations in 2024, including at Centraal Museum, Utrecht, and Museum MORE, Gorssel.The World at Our Command illustrates the importance of intimacy within platonic relationships. Defined by overlapping compositions that echo surrealist photomontages, Essers’ fragmented canvases are full of limbs, bodies, clothes and accessories taken from candid photographs of her friends. By monumentalising those dearest to her, Essers both honours their love and documents the experiences and adventures they have shared.
The exhibition demonstrates the maturity with which the artist is developing her contemporary portraiture. Despite working from objective sources such as photographs, Essers uses her protean compositions to explore the complexities of relationships and the inconsistent nature of memory. Fractured, but not disjointed, her protagonists morph into another as if part of one body, treading a dreamlike line between the figurative and the surreal.
