Group exhibition

11 November - 17 December 2022
Kate Macgarry, London

Stage Effects brings together four artists whose paintings include bodies and the objects we use around them. Some works suggest action beyond the frame, others show action happening within it.

In Hands (2022), Li Xia shows a cat’s paws resting on a woman’s fingers, smooth and cartoon-like. The absence of whole bodies leaves the story open, it is ours to complete. In La Trace d’Eté (Watch) (2022), we only see a sun-tanned arm, with a white mark around the wrist where the subject has been wearing a watch.