Untold

About

The art works have been created within the context of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

Lorraine Kordecki

Lorraine will be exhibiting two paintings: the first, entitled ‘Roman’s Friends,' was painted in response to  both the gallery’s position directly opposite the Chelsea Football Club, and to where Lorraine has a home near the Esmeralda coast in Sardinia, where many of Roman’s friends had in and around Romazzino, their now sanctioned villas and yachts concentrated in that small area of coastline.

Inspired by the Sardinian pristine sea, where Lorraine spends much time photographing underwater, the work is concerned with the traces left there by Roman’s friends.

The names of the sanctioned estates, yachts and ‘friends’ are visible in this work.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine , the oversized yachts left or have been impounded by the Italian government, the grandiose villas and vast estates lie empty. The second painting entitled ‘Romazzino’, painted in 2023, reflects this absence.

Tomasz Matuszak

Tomasz Matuszak is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland, and has taken part in over 150 art exhibitions in Poland and overseas, from the Gale Gates Gallery in New York to the SACO Contemporary Art Biennial in Chile.

Through the use of installation, public intervention, video, sculpture and photography ,his aim is to challenge habitual perceptions and create new meaning within a given space.

His new installation entitled ‘Histerium,’ is an amalgamation of two words : ‘hysteria,’ and ‘mystery.’ Tomasz alludes to ‘Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson,’ a painting of an actual dissection which took place in a theatre , where the public could pay to watch. ‘Histerium,’ has the air of an ancient religious rite being enacted, more of a performance than an actual operating theatre.

Giselle Jones

Inspired by the Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada’s 1910 piece 'La Calavera de Cólera Morbo,’ Giselle’s mixed media paintings entitled ‘La Calavera Catrina de Gripe Morbo,’ were conceived in her studio during the first lockdown in 2020.

Guadalupe’s illustration suggests that cholera kills everyone, regardless of social class. Yet Covid-19 has highlighted how the same structural inequalities which still exist today ,disproportionately affect the poorer margins of society.