Exhibition
Hairy Interventions
05 May 2018 – 26 May 2018
ARTHOUSE1
London, United Kingdom
In Conversation - 6.30pm - 8pm
Free
Join us for an informal artists's talk with Sasha Bowles, Rosalind Davis and Geriant Evans.
Share your hairy thoughts over tea & cake at Arthouse1.
A multi-disciplinary, immersive installation by Sasha Bowles, in her solo show ‘Hairy Interventions’.
Interweaving ideas of identity through the uncanny properties of hair, Bowles playfully twists and entwines her narratives presenting them in facsimiles of environments, masquerading as museums, halls of grandeur and familiar domestic spaces.
Within the exhibition, Sasha creates curious encounters through narratives rooted in identity, perception, deception and reality blurring the strands between fact and fiction, discovery and transformation.
‘Sasha’s Hairy Interventions’ oscillate between a number of positions: visions of unspeakable strangeness, grotesque assemblages, humorous and absurd appendages that echo surrealist objects.’ (Geraint Evans 2018)
Bowles appropriates once familiar objects, old master paintings, found ornaments and etchings fallen from historical books; she then erases, rearranges and discretely brushes over her unwitting sitters and artefacts. Using elements of the museum, the collection and display, the works are re-contextualised, opening new interpretive possibilities. Through the skilful use of oil paint, natural and artificial cascading hair, reformed clay, prints and videos she conjures new paradoxical representations, charged with quasi-familiar narratives.
Sasha’s work is defiantly naughty, disobedient and bold, offering the viewer a playful engagement that in the end, might not play quite fair.
Exhibition Continues to 26th May 2018
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