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RENEE SO
10 March - 16 April 2016

Preview tonight, Wednesday 9 March 6-8pm

Kate MacGarry is pleased to announce Renee So’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. The show comprises new tapestries and ceramics. Repeated motifs such as disconnected limbs, the spherical curls of Assyrian beards and lit cigarettes play across both mediums. Ceramic elephant's feet, anthropomorphic cocktail glasses and giant cigarettes are suggestive of dream logic, the golden age of American advertising and upturned moments of leisure.

The tapestries are defiantly simple and beguiling. Draped legs and smoking cigarettes recall the cocktail hour of the ceramics and suggest twilight worlds of frittered hours or quiet moments of contemplation. These conjure a zone described by Luis Buñuel of “tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.” Together these curious containers and mute tapestries construct notions of displacement, whimsy and imploding narrative.

Renee So, born in Hong Kong in 1974, lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include Busts, with David Noonan and Runa Islam, Hopkinson Mossman, 2015; One Day, Something Happens: Paintings Of People (curated by Jennifer Higgie), The Arts Council Collection, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, 2015; Selected By (curated by Michael Marriott and Jesse Wine), Limoncello, London, 2014; A Conspiracy of Detail, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 2013; Renee So, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Geneva, 2012, Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, and The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, 2010/2011.

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KATE MACGARRY
27 Old Nichol Street
London, E2 7HR

Tel +44 (0)20 7613 0515
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