A new exhibition, running through to 22 April, offer insight into contemporary artist Andrea Medjesi’s ongoing fascination with resurrection and reincarnation.

Medjesi calls upon different Slavic rituals and superstitions, conjuring up magical yet ideology fuelled scenarios found in the folk tales, local mythologies and proverbs. The language is used to activate different mental states induced by paranoia and hallucinations, fear and ecstasy.

Capturing the curiosities of metamorphosis, Medjesi’s works are split in form and composition, moving through the bold use of colour and texture that invite the viewer to delve deeper into the narrative.
Medjesi’s art draws inspiration from a wide range of sources, from mythology and folklore to the natural world and the human experience. The title of the exhibition, Look, I have brought them back…, is taken from the book The General of the Dead Army by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.  It provides a psychological setting and a historic link to the Balkans that trigger content for this new body of paintings, that split, emerge, and manifest change within the works themselves. 

Medjesi was born and raised in the former Yugoslavia. She moved to the UK prior to the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Her practice occupies a space that sits between two geographical and ideological axis (that of the East and the West) that overlap but equally impose their own traditions and histories. Her practice is an attempt to reconcile these temporalities as a regenerating source for fiction, personal memories and future narratives.

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Castor, Kirkman House, 12-14 Whitfield Street, London, W1T 2RF

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