Advisory Spotlight: Shawanda Corbett’s Signs and Symbols
Exhibition view: Shawanda Corbett, Neighbourhood Garden, Corvi-Mora, London (16 June–31 July 2020). Courtesy Corvi-Mora.
Specific memories rather than people are transformed onto paper in her own distinct abstract style, using acrylics; each work hangs on the gallery walls, containing her choreographed figures within the space. Bright, almost otherworldly colours clang together to form startlingly strange and exceptionally beautiful grids and patterns reminiscent of signs or symbols yet to be deciphered.—[O]
Main image: Exhibition view: Shawanda Corbett, Neighbourhood Garden, Corvi-Mora, London (16 June–31 July 2020). Courtesy Corvi-Mora.
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