‘Parent Object’ curated by Tanoa Sasraku for London Gallery Weekend opens 30 May, 5-8pm

Parent Object
Curated by Tanoa Sasraku
31 May – 29 June 2024
Private View: 30 May, 5–8pm
Vardaxoglou Gallery, London

Bill Brandt, Jonathan Callan, Margarita Gluzberg, Tanoa Sasraku, Richard Smith, Anastasia Xirouchakis

For London Gallery Weekend, Vardaxoglou Gallery presents a group exhibition curated by artist Tanoa Sasraku, bringing together works providing a critical context to the artist’s series of Terratypes. The individual works included have been selected for their visual, material, or conceptual connection with Sasraku’s Terratypes, a body of work started in 2020 which draws on the artist’s personal and historical connection to the British landscape. The exhibition displays the various influences on Sasraku’s Terratypes, from a Pre-Independence Asafo Flag, a 1947 Bill Brandt photograph, to a 1972 Richard Smith canvas, and includes peers of the artist working today.  A published conversation between Vanessa Peterson (associate editor of Frieze Magazine) and Tanoa Sasraku will accompany the exhibition.

Terratypes are unique, sculptural hybrids of painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, and textiles. To create these works, the artist forages for million-year old earth pigments in locations like Dartmoor, the Jurassic Coast, the Scottish Highlands, Cornwall and Ghana, hand-rubbing them into sheets of blank newsprint, which are then sewn, soaked and ripped, revealing past layers of pigment and pattern; the intersection of geological time and personal memory. 

For further information please contact info@vardaxoglou.com.