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Finding Home Amongst the Olive Trees, 2022. Catherine Repko
Exhibition
Catherine Repko, Gatherer
15 Oct 2022 – 19 Nov 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 13:00 – 17:30
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- 3-5 Swallow Street
- London
England - W1B 4DE
- United Kingdom
Huxley-Parlour is pleased to present Gatherer: an exhibition of work by London-based artist, Catherine Repko. Using an emphasis on reduced forms and negative space, Repko explores the intersection between documentary and painting, memory and obfuscation, to create nostalgic and painterly tableaux.
About
Catherine Repko’s exhibition is made from archival reference material, and is developed in particular from home videos of the artist and her three sisters growing up in Italy. Working from pixelated stills, Repko casts digital memories in an earthen palette, using the process of attrition to simplify, flatten, and subtract from the documented compositions. In doing so, Repko’s painting mythologises memory, translating ephemeral footage into tangible objects. Her use of reduction, her relentless commitment to line, and the choice to obscure her subject’s faces both anonymises personal, family memories, and opens up her compositions to become universal tableau. Repko describes the works as having ‘one foot based in reality’, but as ‘missing something that maybe wasn’t even there to begin with’.
The exhibition title, Gatherer, references the archaic practice of gathering as a framework through which to understand practices of care, worldbuilding, and relating to others within storytelling. It will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with Huxley-Parlour.
