Exhibition
Michaela Yearwood-Dan. After Euphoria
22 Nov 2019 – 11 Jan 2020
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 24 Cork Street
- London
England - W1S 3NG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: Oxford Circus
“As the tide carried me to the realm of self-content and reflection, it is now that I see that it was simply carrying me to the shore of finding myself.”
About
Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present 'After Euphoria' - an exhibition by Michaela Yearwood-Dan – the artist’s first solo show with the gallery.Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s work reflects on subjectivity and individual identity as forms of self-determination. Through painting, she explores how selfhood and personal experience – especially love and loss – marks of existence – constitute a vital and highly personal process of self-historicization vis-à-vis identity formation.
'After Euphoria' draws heavily on the vicissitudes of her own romantic life – past and present - exploring what the artist calls the ‘bitter-sweet reality’ that arrives in the aftermath of heightened emotion and connectivity. Yet the artist also coheres an analogy between falling in and out of love with the mutability of contemporary experience that is desirous of advancement but marked by crisis and change. But what occurs at the end of all these entanglements – amorous or political? Yearwood-Dan proposes a rosy perspective of nostalgia that gives way - starkly and inevitably - to a sudden realisation of disillusionment; that all is not what it's cracked up to be or was. The works in this exhibition explore the awareness of the hues and textures of that epiphany.
“I think the second I stopped trying to hide behind how a feminist, millennial, black woman should be and the goals they should attain I felt the load lift of my shoulders and found the ability to make the most honest work I could make,” says Yearwood-Dan.