Mandy El-Sayegh: Jewel Tones

Thaddaeus Ropac London presents Jewel Tones, an immersive, site-specific exhibition by Mandy El-Sayegh, coinciding with London Gallery Weekend. Featuring a new body of paintings, installation and performance, the exhibition explores the machinations of consumerism and perceptions of luxury in the contemporary world.

Known for her use of print and digital media as source material, El-Sayegh has in recent years created works that examine the collision of dissonant realities in published matter: between the reportage of violent geopolitical events on the one hand, and the promotion of luxury goods on the other. These juxtapositions appear side by side in the newspapers she collects, collages and silkscreens into her paintings, where advertisements for diamonds sit next to headlines reporting on unfolding wars and humanitarian crises. Through material processes of layering, fragmentation and assemblage, El-Sayegh considers not only the proliferation of this information, but also the unseen networks of influence and capital through which it circulates.

Free

Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm

Friday 5 June, 5pm

Red Lady is a new performance conceived by Mandy El-Sayegh for her exhibition, Jewel Tones. Performed by El-Sayegh together with artist and medium, Alice Walter, the piece employs collage as methodology, drawing on fragments from film, editorial fashion, and post-war theatre. As language and gesture unravel into states of crisis, they invite the audience into a position of uncertain participation. A performance of exaggerated self-presentation, disruptive dialogue, and unsolicited intimacy, Red Lady sustains a tension between composure and collapse.

To reserve your place e-mail rsvp.london@ropac.net