Sim Smith presents All the Land is Spoken For, the second solo show with the gallery by British artist Kemi Onabulé. The exhibition explores our relationship to our environment as consumers of a seemingly unending resource. Across the paintings in the exhibition, Onabulé traverses superficially magical forests through a veil of neon brushstrokes, transporting us with her and compelling us to look through her technicoloured lens at the result of our actions on our world.
All the Land is Spoken For refers to a land, our land, our need to own the place that we come from, a need to put our name on it in personal, cultural or ecological terms. This need is not so much for the land itself or for nature or sustainability but about an urge to consume. The title relates to the moment we start to understand that most of the land is spoken for and we are needing to go further into the wilderness.
Onabulé is known to portray the everyman in her paintings, drawing on universal, collective experience. In this exhibition, the image of the figure has been replaced in many of the paintings by the figure of the tree. It is a structure that has limbs a tall body and stands erect in the landscape; it changes with the weather and the seasons;
| Duration | 11 January 2024 - 10 February 2024 |
| Times | Friday 10am - 4pm and Saturday 11am - 5pm |
| Cost | Free |
| Venue | Sim Smith |
| Address | 6 Camberwell Passage, London, SE5 0AX |
| Contact | 4407920102284 / mail@sim-smith.com / www.sim-smith.com |