reviews

  • View of “Zoë Paul: Solitude and Village,” 2016. From left: <>, 2016; au, 2016; Untitled, 2016.

    View of “Zoë Paul: Solitude and Village,” 2016. From left: <>, 2016; au, 2016; Untitled, 2016.

    Zoë Paul

    The Breeder

    Zoë Paul’s solo exhibition “Solitude and Village” embodied a harmonious universe where the divine resides within the domestic, the individual alongside the collective. Like a cross between a cult temple and a midcentury living room, the space was arrayed with seven disembodied clay heads supported by architectural platforms, the walls covered in frescoes of giant nudes engaging in sexual acts or relaxing in solitary poses, each painted in expressive strokes of natural clay and whitewash. The stylized sculptures recalled Modern Primitivism; the arrangement of the irregularly shaped plinths, topped

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