Kohn Gallery presents a solo exhibition by New York based artist Sophia Narrett
Sophia Narrett, Whisper Like a Magnet , 2020, Embroidery Thread, Aluminum and Fabric, 33 x 40 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Kohn Gallery is presenting Soul Kiss, its first solo exhibition by New York based artist Sophia Narrett. Known for her elaborately embroidered shaped canvases, Narrett weaves together spatially unfolding narratives of desire and sexuality. Each work invites the viewer to engage alongside it in a transcendent exercise of introspection, where the pursuit of sustained love is in concert with the search for the self. My work is about constructing something with a language that is problematic but using it to make my own narrative sitting with what might be uncomfortable, and sometimes its about subverting that.
Growing Up Travelling: The Inside World of the Irish Traveller Children by Jamie Johnson
NEW YORK, NY
.- American photographer Jamie Johnson has devoted her over 20-year career to photographing children and the process of growing up. In 2014 she was invited to Ireland to document the Irish Travellers, a nomadic, ethnic minority that have lived on the margins of Irish society for centuries. She was introduced to a group of Travellers at the Ballinasloe Horse Fair and Festival, an annual event in County Galway where Travellers from Ireland and Europe come to set up camps, reunite with family and friends, and sell puppies and ponies. The children are left to run footloose and fancy free with dolls, animals, and candy cigarettes. While the Travellers dont usually like outsiders, Johnsons warmth, kindness and show of respect won them over and she was granted full access to photograph their lives and culture.
Sabrina Amrani presents the third solo exhibition of Nicène Kossentini s work at the gallery
Nicène Kossentini, Detail of Poem of Abû Nuwâs, 2020. Ink on paper. 41 x 31 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Sabrina Amrani.
MADRID
.- Nicène Kossentini (Tunisia, 1977) continues to explore the social and political dimension of culture. For Memorising, the artist prepared a series of works based on texts by Arab philosophers, thinkers and poets, such as Ibn Khaldun or Khalil Gibran. The calligraphic texts here disappear in an exercise of miniature writing that makes the reading complex and the meaning impossible: works in which famous quotes are intertwined, poems are superimposed, or history texts are dissolved in water. Nicène questions not only the liquid aspect of culture and tradition, but also the concepts of identity, civilization and history. How does a civilization survive and evolve when tangible knowledge becomes unintelligible?
Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art wows audiences at Auckland Art Gallery
Fiona Pardington, Davis Kea Wings (above), 2015. Courtesy of the Artist and Starkwhite, Auckland.
AUCKLAND
.- In the largest exhibition ever presented by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art offers insights into the development of Māori art from the 1950s to the present day. The first major exhibition of its kind in nearly 20 years, Toi Tū Toi Ora is informed by a Māori worldview, and includes more than 300 artworks, exploring cultural histories, Māori knowledge, identity and place.