Until 6 June, Annka Kultys, Unit 9, 472 Hackney Road, E2 9EQ; book via website
The Los Angeles-born artist Gretchen Andrew has made headlines in recent years for hijacking online search engines and replacing the top results for topics such as “Frieze Los Angeles” or “Cover of
Artforum” with images of her own work. Her first ever gallery show which inaugurates Annka Kultys’s newly expanded space is something of a watershed moment that pronounces Andrew’s entry into a world that her practice both venerates and undermines. Fittingly, it is all about articulating desire and reconstructing broken systems from the inside.
Eight collage-on-canvas assemblage works embody “vision boards”, representing Andrew’s life goals, insecurities and dreams. Bedazzled in costume gems and crowded with fake flowers and butterfly stickers, their formal elements challenge conventions of taste while also being figurative, loudly branded and on canvas cynically fulfilling the key requ
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