Category: Art
Sista Pratesi presents her third solo show at Gimpel Fils, having graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1994. She has contributed to many shows and won many awards in the years since, but I know her because we used to sing together. Her latest show The Living End sounds intriguing: an ambiguous exploration of psychological transformation and transition via totemic objects.
'We enter into a space with islands of carpet, clusters of objects, and paintings hanging on the wall. Elements can be picked out, traces of carving, lengths of flowing hair, and figures merging into, or coming out of, abstract spaces. It is not apparent whether this site is an archaeological find of a once powerful empire, or the beginnings of a new world. We are looking at the expression of a state of mind, in which the emotional has become physical. Offered a world of ambiguity and superstitions, somehow out of time, it is unclear whether these are ghosts of the past, or totems for the unknown future.'
Her work is shown at the same time as the feted Jewish painter Jankel Adler (1895-1949).
Gallery hours:
Mon – Fri 10am – 5.30pm
Sat 11am – 4pm