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Wrapping Up in London

7 May 2019

Wrapping Up in London
In London I was wrapping up ahead of my six week journey away from the UK, it felt really strange. On the train I spotted a young girl wearing a distinctive bag
Wrapping Up in London
Tif brought her dogs to the office. Lumi at my desk keeping Lizzie company
Wrapping Up in London
Enjoying their first visit to the new show ‘World Receivers’
Wrapping Up in London
Lizzie went to Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum to check out our Maria Lassnig loan in her ‘Ways of Being’ survey
Wrapping Up in London
At the same time Maitreyi went to Fondazione Prada in Milan for Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch’s large scale installation ‘Whether Line’. The work is a distortion of familiar space, representing escape and return to Ohio
Wrapping Up in London
I managed to catch the last day of Anne Imhof’s performance ‘Sex’ at Tate Modern, it was a wicked show. The performance was full of tension with many references to the pressures of today. The performances were constant and we followed groups of collaborators from room to room. We were able to explore the installation of paintings. I loved one of the actors vaping in a wall installation of a stainless steel half pipe, it was definitely all unexpected. I had to leave before the end, it was hard to wrench myself away
Wrapping Up in London
Then it was off to Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries where we loved the works in Mike Nelson’s ‘The Asset Strippers’. Pieces of post-war found machinery, curated to perfection, gave us a history of industrial Britain
Wrapping Up in London
I had the feeling I was walking through a sculpture park rather than a junkyard of obsolete mechanisms
Wrapping Up in London
As I said goodbye to the Zabludowicz Collection, I was getting quite familiar with Isa Genzken’s sculptures
Wrapping Up in London
Connecting to the works in different ways, including this Aaron Fowler large-scale assemblage called ‘Free Easy’
Wrapping Up in London
I viewed Chloe Wise’s new body of work, ‘Not that We Don’t’ at Almine Rech, in a different light. Addressing the tensions of contemporary life, exploring the unspoken dynamics that maintain the individuals participation amongst their contemporaries
Wrapping Up in London
Then it was goodbye London, hello Cologne!