Matches Struck Unexpectedly In The Dark

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ONEROOM Gallery is pleased to present Matches struck unexpectedly in the dark,  a group show curated by Samuele Visentin. The exhibition includes works by Michael Chance, Antonio Fabozzi, Alessandro Keegan, David Kinsey, Anna Krzanowska and Kemi Onabule and it will take place from 17 February to 05 March 2022.

The artists selected for this show represent a visual response to the state of uncertainty inflicting Western society nowadays - a condition that became all too evident during the break occurred in or around March 2020. However, issues focused on climate change, ecological destruction, toxic patriarchy, social imbalances, anxiety disorders, land privatization had inevitably tainted the apparent calm of daily life long before the start of the new decade. In bringing together these artists the purpose is to highlight the artistic urge to react to a lousy reality in favor of other dimensions, where the effects of the present time are channeled, shunned, honed or appropriated and as such, disarmed.

The primitive futurist nature of Kemi Onabule, the visionary mineral experiences of Alessandro Keegan, the “precluded gardens” of Antonio Fabozzi, the surreal anthropoid figures of Dave Kinsey, the shifting metamorphosing portraits of Anna Krzanowska and the composite human puzzles of Michael Chance… they all stage a kaleidoscope of scenarios that plant the uncertainty of reality in firm artistic grounds.