Hector Campbell’s The Shock of the Now Featured Exhibition: Tanoa Sasraku’s Terratypes at Spike Island
Hector Campbell reviews Tanoa Sasraku’s solo exhibition at Spike Island, Bristol, for The Shock of the Now.
“Last weekend I made a slightly mistimed pilgrimage back to my hometown of Bristol, and had to avoid the annual influx of nautical nuts and weekend revellers at the city’s Harbour Festival in order to catch the fleeting final moments of Tanoa Sasraku’s solo exhibition at Spike Island. Spike has occupied an important place in my heart since it was Bristol’s premier contemporary arts organisation during my time as a student (after the Arnolfini, Bristol’s International Centre for Contemporary Arts, was forced to close temporarily in 2017 following the sad loss of it’s ACE National Portfolio Organisation status and subsequent funding). Having played host to Lubaina Himid’s historic 'Navigation Charts’, which formed part of the trio of institutional exhibitions that earned the artist her Turner Prize win, and Veronica Ryan’s superb ‘Along a Spectrum’, which saw the artist shortlisted for this year’s Turner, Spike Island recently commissioned Sasraku’s debut institutional solo show, cementing her standing as one of the most exciting emerging artists working today.”
