The House of Bernarda Alba

22 Nov 2024-25 Jan 2025

PV 21 Nov 2024, 6-8pm

Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia, ¡Silencio!, 2023, Oil and tempera on washi. Credit: Installed at Saatchi Gallery, London, as part of The Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year Award, 2023. Photograph: Tom Platinum Morley. Courtesy of the Artist and Saatchi Gallery, London.

Overview

Elizabeth Xi Bauer is delighted to present 'The House of Bernarda Alba', an exhibition featuring works by Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia and Sam Llewellyn-Jones. United by themes of place, identity, and memory, Onwochei-Garcia’s work confronts contemporary surveillance, identity politics, and post-colonial narratives. Llewellyn-Jones explores the themes of landscape and material elements; his work highlights the passage of time, revealing how landscapes carry layers of history, memory, and meaning.   
 
'The House of Bernarda Alba' transforms the gallery space into an immersive indoor-outdoor experience. Onwochei-Garcia’s large, suspended paintings construct a house-like environment that guides the viewer’s movement. In turn, Llewellyn-Jones’s photographs and oil on pastel works create a foreboding landscape that surrounds and deepens the setting. Together, the artists evoke a layered space resonating with tension and unease.   

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