Exhibition

Renee So

11 Mar 2016 – 16 Apr 2016

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Friday
11:00 – 17:00
Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 17:00
Thursday
11:00 – 17:00

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Kate MacGarry Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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  • Shoreditch High Street / Liverpool Street / Old Street
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Kate MacGarry is pleased to announce Renee So’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. The show comprises new tapestries and ceramics.

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Repeated motifs such as disconnected limbs, the spherical curls of Assyrian beards and lit cigarettes play across both tapestries and ceramics. The ceramic elephants’ feet, anthropomorphic cocktail glasses and giant cigarettes are suggestive of dream logic, the golden age of American advertising and upturned moments of leisure.

The tapestries are defiantly simple and beguiling. Draped legs and smoking cigarettes recall the cocktail hour of the ceramics and suggest twilight worlds of frittered hours or quiet moments of contemplation. The zone described by Luis Buñuel of “tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.” Together these curious containers and mute tapestries construct notions of displacement, whimsy and imploding narrative.

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Renee So

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