LAST WEEK ⁠⁠ ⁠Don't miss the final days of Penny Siopis: For Dear Life.⁠ ⁠ • Until 29 October 2022⁠ ⁠ CROMWELL PLACE⁠ Gallery 7⁠ 4 Cromwell Pl.⁠ London⁠ SW7 2JE⁠ ⁠ ⁠ 'For Dear Life' features the latest works from the ongoing painting installation series, Viscous Worlds (2017-present), Atlas (2020-present) and a selection of solo canvases exemplifying Siopis’ long-term engagement with the notion, ‘the poetics of vulnerability’: a philosophically materialist and choreographic confluence of gesture, thought and response to cultural and environmental phenomena taking place globally, and specifically in South Africa.⁠ ⁠ Siopis’ selected materials for her paintings include: glue, ink, and at later stages oil paint. Beginning with the canvas placed horizontally on the floor and working from its edges, Siopis pours and guides glue on the surface, adding ink and letting the substances flow, coalesce or at its own momentum draw off from the canvas. These abstract flows dry translucent and cohere a visual language that corresponds to readings of current events.⁠ ⁠ This sensibility transfers itself to Siopis’ films sourced from disparate sections of found 16 or 8mm home movies, which, when edited together, form a visual dissonance between what is seen, what is possible, and what is read of events and their meaning on and potentially off screen and in life. 'For Dear Life' will include the moving image work, 'She Breathes Water' (2019).⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Link in bio for more information⁠ ⁠ @pennysiopis⁠ @stevenson_za⁠ @friezeofficial⁠ ⁠ 📷️ Installation images of Penny Siopis: For Dear Life, Cromwell Place, 5 - 29 October 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary.