Exhibition Opening

2 Jun 2023 6-8pm

Smoking DW, 2019, Oil on canvas. Credit: Courtesy of One and J. Gallery and the artist

Overview

Frieze No.9 Cork Street invites you to the opening reception of: 

Meeting
Vadehra Art Gallery, presents a solo exhibition by celebrated post-modernist Arpita Singh titled Meeting, featuring a curated body of canvases, watercolours and drawings. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in London. Arpita Singh’s works assume new dimension as cartographical autobiographies, accenting imagined characters and landscapes with the flourish of expressionist emotion. With compositions foregrounded in movement, Singh tends to emphasise the potential of individual agency operating within collective constraints, though her mapping doesn’t seem to prioritise any one aspect – whether the fictional, mythical, personal, public fact or dream. These almost think-scapes capture constructs of space in abstraction, whose protagonists occupy their frames implicitly and navigate time, cultures and history through an assemblage of connection. 

Solid to Gas
Ross-Sutton Gallery, presents Solid to Gas, a solo show by Khari Turner. Turner's paintings and drawings combine abstraction with realistic renderings of Black noses and lips to investigate the spiritual and physical record to his ancestor’s relationship with water. The average body is made up of 60% water, the same water in these ethereal beings that inhabit the work. All the water on this earth is the same water that has always been on this earth. The knowledge water holds is in all of us, and the realization that we share this water is his focus. Turner's work is constantly evolving, absorbing water and history as a material, painting to bring the stories of elegance and chaos that comes with this existence.

Acquainted with the Night
One and J. Gallery, presents the group exhibition “Acquainted with the Night” featuring three Korean artists - Dongwook Suh, Ahnnlee Lee, and Yoonhee Choi. It presents various artistic practices through portraits, abstract paintings, installations, and poem that have been created by experiencing the night which are metaphorical to darkness, solitude, and emptiness as a fate of humans. Dongwook Suh presents the portraits implying the emotion of solitude we all feel as human beings. Having delved into her internal being, Yoonhee Choi paints her innermost emotions by rubbing paint with her physical movements. Between the paintings, the immersive installations by Ahnnlee Lee, inspired from his poem ‘Alchemy’ (2019), mingle with the exhibition scenery like an alchemist. The exhibition is titled after the poem Acquainted with the Night (1928) by Robert Frost (1874-1963, USA) which explores the fundamental train of thought as a human being, depicting the darkness of depression and loneliness of the individual as the metaphor ‘Night’. The night can be interpreted in a variety of ways, depending on the emotions, situations, and our surroundings at the time. It mostly feels depressing and melancholy, but at the same time, lets us explore deep inside and seek the dim light, even if there is only moonlight far away.

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