While the connection between the works in Actions is as ambiguous as its title, the exhibition braids together three artists worth examining individually. Laurel Nakadate’s installation serves as a wall-sized shrine for bridging time and absence, with altered snapshots depicting a world where her mother and daughter coexisted. Graham Collins’s casein paintings reveal hidden complexities as shifting perspectives uncover intricate ceramic sculptures, which feels earned. In comparison, Zoe Koke’s work is charged. She interprets nostalgic memories like the golden light within a dreamy, feral field seen in Mother’s Yellow Broom, (2024). Yet her unapologetic, acute strokes also conjure something more insidious: predator and prey, chasing and fleeing those memories poised for slaughter.
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