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KIERA BENNETT : The Making of an Anthropologist

5 Apr-11 May 2013

CHARLIE SMITH LONDON
London E1 6QL

Overview

Kiera Bennett's paintings read at first as one-liners. The disjointed shapes and fan-like striations of the early cubists is brought to bear on scenes of urban listlessness: boring parties, bored smoking. They go much beyond that, though. Bennett's paintings engage thoroughly and seriously with early modernist pictorial ideas to find new uses for them: to limn new ways of visualising bodily experience out of the rag and bone shop of the past. Ben Street