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Territorial Shadows @ Bischoff/Weiss – London

31/08/2012 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

free

Maya Hewitt‘s extremely rich compositions will invade Bischoff/Weiss‘ Mayfair rooms from next Wednesday & on… a series of large-scale paintings, as big as the artist’s studio will allow, that will dominate B/W space allowing the viewer to dive into Maya’s canvases.

Maya Hewitt - Muffled in Grey and Gold, 2010
Maya Hewitt – Muffled in Grey and Gold, 2010 (images via B/W)

In Territorial Shadows the viewer is presented with a series of highly detailed and rich scenes, each a different chapter in her story. Hewitt creates an uncanny narrative in a Hunterian-esque museum with anatomical, pathological and zoological specimens obsessively detailed and ordered; pickled body parts and taxidermy animals and birds, butterflies pinned in rows and a plethora of categorised, archived, dissected and anatomised species, some disturbingly human, line the walls.

Maya Hewitt - Catacomb - 2012
Maya Hewitt – Catacomb – 2012 (image via B/W)

Life-size human visitors survey the scene, though they are not so real as their surroundings, they are clumsy and awkward, they hover in the pictorial space, dis-engaged, their ghostly eyes locking them out. Rendered impotent by their awkwardness, these figures are not the protagonists in the scenes, merely witnesses to them. Alongside these human visitors are yet more ethereal beings, lighter beings that overlook, floating somehow both in and above their surroundings. Invisible, these figures seem to sadly contemplate the scenes, perhaps overlooking it as guardian angels or the soul reincarnate of some long-mummified animal.

Maya Hewitt - Hibernation Room, 2012
Maya Hewitt – Hibernation Room, 2012 (image via B/W)

Overwhelming compositions presenting a mix of emotion & narrative layers which seem to belong to another dimension, a parallel world filled with ghostly biographies and dense iconographies from distant beings. An experience we highly recommend and which runs throughout September starting Wednesday 5th. More info this way.

Maya Hewitt - Dark Night of the soul, 2010
Maya Hewitt – Dark Night of the soul, 2010 (image via B/W)

Details

Date:
31/08/2012
Time:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost:
free
Event Category:

Venue

Bischoff/Weiss
14a Hay Hill
London, W1J 8NZ United Kingdom
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Organizer

Bischoff/Weiss
Phone:
+44 (0)207 629 5954
Website:
http://www.bischoffweiss.com/