SHOWnews: Your Weekly Arts Bulletin

PERFORMANCE

Bardo by Charlie Jimenez for art collective Ethereal Maison

Movement artist Charlie Jimenez is back. After collaborating with FKA Twigs for her Sotheby's residency, they're performing for Ethereal Maison. The Myth and Magic of Odin’s hunt and Pagan rituals unfurl as Jimenez's imagination splits across worlds. Titled Bardo, this surreal dreamscape-style performance envisions a post-mortem passage as the body transforms into a liminal vessel through death. Echoes of existence, surreal masks and skeletal structures meditate on memory and the body’s dissolution. As the boundaries between reality and myth dissolve, Jimenez awakens a primordial engagement with the soul. Prepare to be enraptured. We will say no more. 

This performance is taking place at a secret East London location on Friday 7 March. Grab your tickets here and prepare for a night of adventure.

EXHIBITION

Love You, Don't Love You by Tamara K.E. at Gathering

This week marks the opening of Tamara K.E.’s Love you, Don’t Love You retrospective at Warrick Street’s Gathering. Promising a true kaleidoscope of delirium covering K.E’s 20-year career, the exhibition provides a cacophony of contradictory emotions and colour as seen through the lenses of abstract expressionism, photorealism, pop art and impressionism - all of which combine in a divine yet furious ontological enquiry. In the past six years, K.E. has focused exclusively on working on paper and technology-driven materials, both materials helping her create immersive works over 10 meters long. Now, she examines the postmodern condition in newer works that combine traditional oil paint with printed images manipulated on Photoshop. For Love You, Don’t Love You, her tumult of work both past and present comes together. Consider it a matrimony, of sorts. 

Love You, Don’t Love You at Gathering Gallery is open to the public until 17 April.

EXHIBITION

Sleight of the Canopy by Nina Ogden at The Incubator

Reality TV show Big Brother hasn’t exactly earned a place in the world of art, but in the eyes of Nina Ogden, nothing could be more stimulating. Sewing the seed for her solo Incubator exhibition titled Sleight of the Canopy, Ogden worked on set at Big Brother before turning her gaze to painting. While lurking behind the two-way mirrors in the dark ‘camera run’ that surrounded the set, she mused over how light and shadows are used in illusion and deception. Further inspired by the theatrics of Kew Gardens and London Zoo’s eldritch reptiles, Ogden distilled her thoughts into a series of paintings. Inviting you to look past the flared lens and painted surfaces that define modern life, Sleight of the Canopy celebrates the sinister dance of light and shadow. What more could an art lover want?

Sleight of the Canopy at The Incubator is open to the public until 30 March.

EXHIBITION

A Room With A View by Jamie Allan Shaw at 10-14 Gallery

A gesture, a courtship, a visual mess of two morning routines together. Ah, Romance; you know it when you see it. It isn’t defined in specific codes of conduct. Chivalry, care, and civility count towards something for sure, but what is romantic is to be mulled over. Evade stipulation. In the spirit of mulling it over, A Room with a View is a new exhibit curated by Jamie Allan Shaw at the 10-14 Gallery that does exactly that. Mediating over the myriad of ways romantic gestures permeate our world, the exhibition provides an exploration into the materiality of the photographic image, presenting visual findings from 14 artists all of whom have their own stance on the subject. 

Works by the fashion designer Jawara Alleyne, Bernice Mulenga, Joe Skilton and many more encourage you to engage with the notion of what gestures can hold or sensations can bring. Take stock of all the collective romance you have ever known, and you’ll find yourself amused and surprised. A Room With A View promises to do exactly that. 

A Room With A View at 10-14 Gallery is open to the public until 31 March.

FILM INSTILLATION

Shifting / Spirit / Time by Julianknxx at BURO Stedelijk, Amsterdam

The philosopher Édouard Glissant once wrote ‘you can change with the other while being yourself, you are not one, you are multiple, and you are yourself.’ No artist has embodied this quote more literally than the Sierra Leonean cinematic poet, Julianknxx. To be ready to transform and blend with the voices of others is indeed a 21st century super power and Julianknxx is no stranger to this, as proven by his latest show at the BURO Stedelijk in Amsterdam, Manifestation #54: Shifting / Spirit / Time.

Seldom are we invited to an artist's active evolution building a project atop a project. Here, Julianknxx builds on his performance Chorus in Flight, which was presented May of last year at the steps of the very same Amsterdam-located museum. Through virtues of repetition, Shifting / Spirit / Time transforms sound into physical material as the chorus of sounds ‘Wai Wai Wai’ reverberate throughout. United by rhythm in memory and cultural fragments, Julianknxx once again invites us into his own world. And how could we possibly refuse? If you're not as familiar with Julianknxx as the rest of the art world is then it's time to catch on quick. Watch SHOWstudio's In Your Face interview with the visual artist and poet here.

Julianknxx: Shifting / Spirit / Time is now on view until 24 April at BURO Stedelijk in Amsterdam.

EXHIBITION

Cold Hunt Corsage by Penny Goring at Arcadia Missa

If you were to look in the mirror and rage against the motions of life, you would scream expletives, throw things and cry - not in that particular order. Goring is an artist who does this daily (rage against the motions of life, not cry), as made clear by her idiosyncratic nature that takes form via the process of visualising her own poetry - much of which confronts the artist’s thoughts as they do collage her feelings. 

Armed with a style that she's had the luxury of developing over decades, Goring uses images of her young face overlaid with an interplay of text - most often small poems - to succinctly express the unexplainable, particularly in relation to how the body or mind stores feelings. Printed on aluminium and placed in dark frames, Goring’s new exhibition at Arcadia Missa Cold Hunt Corsage is like no other. Consider this your rare chance to see inside Goring’s revelatory mind. They don't come often.

Penny Goring: Cold Hunt Corsage is on view until 15 April at Arcadia Missa.

EXHIBITION

Mother of a Famous Artist, Dorothy Iannone, Sarah Pucci, 1992 at Ginny On Frederick

The mother-daughter relationship has been the subject of much intrigue to makers and artists in every medium. Ruminating on this and so much more, Ginny on Frederick's Mother of a famous artist is an exhibition featuring intricate gifts artist Sarah Pucci made for her daughter Dorothy Iannone. The intimacy of the show lies in the intermingling of Iannone’s own still-life paintings which have been displayed next to Pucci’s beautifully-adorned sculptures, highlighting a deep connection between them that goes beyond shared DNA. Offering an honest look into the strength of familial relationships with more honestly than many would care to admit, this exhibition isn't just a testament to talent but to love, too.

Mother of a famous artist, Dorothy Iannone, Sarah Pucci, 1992 continues until 5 April at Ginny On Frederick.