Entitled “Shadows”, Kruglyanskaya’s exhibition will assemble a bunch of latest work and drawings that each honour and query the legacy of the artists and experiences which have formed her follow. Drawing on the works of Josef Albers, Édouard Manet, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Anthea Hamilton, René Magritte in addition to the quite a few representations of odalisques in artwork’s historical past, Kruglyanskaya’s new works discover the character of inventive affect and the enduring dialog about the way forward for portray.
Kruglyanskaya’s many frames of reference embody textile design, graphic arts and the histories of portray. These histories are sometimes amusingly reformulated inside large-scale portraits which mix cartoonish and sardonic figures with parts of nonetheless life, taking part in on the custom of memento mori. In Everybody and Their Mortality (2024) Kruglyanskaya interprets modern ideograms into trompe l’oeil, and locations these symbols in acquainted artwork historic scenes, whereby her humour undercuts scenes of emotional rigidity or confrontation.
In her new physique of labor, the lengthy shadows solid by the sunshine getting into Kruglyanskaya’s New York studio reframe the photographs created by her painterly influences, or are dappled throughout dashing feminine figures and overlaid with references to know-how, each evolving and out of date. These acts of homage are destabilised by satirical or double entendre titles that decision into query our modern methods of seeing and making.
at Thomas Dane Gallery, London
till Could 3, 2025
