details of Farah Al Qasimi’s images obscuring gentle moments of intimacy whilst questioning our understanding of place and familiarity in an increasingly interconnected and hybrid global society
on display at the tate modern
My mother is scared of horses. When I was seven my father bought me a Jade horse charm from Chinatown, now it’s missing a back leg. My mother’s scared of the kick of the horses back legs.
This is an early memory. I am the year of the horse.
Here are a series of eight vintage green jade horses made in Taiwan in the last decades of the last century. The horse represents blessings of peace.
In Kazakhstan, I have eaten horse. I do not like it. I have also seen them run in the fields of the steppes.
the last hour of Cosima von Bonin ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ at @raven__row
Material close ups, colours, wools, tweeds, digital embroidery. Thinking of material configurations and visual pleasure and arrangement. Also thinking of physical barriers within arranging gallery space.
just some ideas and thoughts.
Polly Morgan @saatchi_gallery as part of ‘The Long Now’. 40 years at the Saatchi.
Explore the Range, 2025
Limit Lifting, 2024
‘snakes in the sculptures, painted and coated in powders and transfers used to decorate human nails, contort to fit casts of polystyrene packaging, gripping or spilling from openings in the forms.’
