Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Divine Repose, 2021 Oil on linen, 90 x 85 x 3.6 cm Courtesy the Artist, Corvi-Mora, London, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
British artist and writer Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977, lives and works in London) is celebrated for her paintings of timeless subjects in everyday moments of happiness, comradery, and solitude.
To look at a Yiadom-Boakye painting is an invitation to slow down and to carefully observe; to enter the imaginary visual tales she spins. The poetic and thought-provoking titles of the works reinforce the sense that these are more than paintings. They are fictions, much is left to the eye of the beholder.
The exhibition is comprised of paintings and charcoal drawings from 2020 to 2023 on display for the first time. As music is also one of the creative forces that feeds Yiadom-Boakye’s practice, a playlist compiled by the artist specifically for the exhibition will be available to visitors, providing greater context into the inspirational sources for her work. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully-illustrated catalogue with texts by Yiadom-Boakye, writer and filmmaker Kodwo Eshun, and curator Lekha Hileman Waitoller.
