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Landing, with a Capital L
Kate Burling
27 Nov - 24 Jan
PV: Wed 26 Nov, 6-9pm
Miłość is excited to present Kate Burling’s solo exhibition ‘Landing, with a Capital L’, a new body of work merging painting with drawing, installation and diary entries. While anticipating Landings, Kate illustrates her interior life; her suspended, repetitive, sensory fascinations pulsate, sag, hover, simmer and liquify.
Her work forms a surreal lexicon of her visceral motifs – throbbing cherries produce tension with colourful abacus beads, butterfly-like confetti that feels like a mouth breathing on your skin, tangled propellers that can no longer move as fast, wrinkled folded wings decorated with ribbons drooping with embarrassment. They are vivid familiarities, deprived of line and detailed explanations, but effervescent, porous and tactile.
I like to write Landing with a capital L because its implied hypotenuse feels like the kind of Landing I’m after. There are only two options if you choose to Land prematurely: one is a springboard and the other is a pool with high walls and no ladders. The Landing I want is diagonal and smooth. I want to plane and descend with the wind under my wings, keeping everything I’ve held so clumsily between feathered layers of bleached muslin and candlelight plates. I want cherries to stand like knights along the runway, offering themselves as sumptuous full-stops, and the patience to pick them up and turn away and forward and forward etc.
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