Ed Cross is delighted to present Haunt, a solo show of new and recent work by London-based artist Pippa El-Kadhi Brown.
From canvases just 10 centimetres square to diptychs more than 2 metres long, El-Kadhi Brown sets her tableaus in a series of ambiguous domestic spaces. At Ed Cross, the gallery itself is drawn into conversation with the work hanging in it — canvases on far walls invoke the sense of looking through a doorway into another room. Diptychs are hung to straddle corners, echoing the interior architecture of the works while confounding their physics.
Rendered in the artist’s characteristically translucent layers of paint, the shadowy characters populating Haunt are no more tangible than their environment. Simultaneously lumpen and ethereal, they evoke the sensation of walking through a dark house half asleep — of your limbs not quite behaving how you expect them to, or of something glimpsed out of the corner of your eye.
Please click on the documents tab above for the Haunt exhibition essay, Ghost Party by Eloise Hendy.