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Waterplay

Gallery Vacancy

Nov 08, 2024 — Dec 21, 2024

place261 Yunnan Road (S), Huangpu, Shanghai, China, 200021

Gallery Vacancy•Nov 08, 2024 — Dec 21, 2024

place261 Yunnan Road (S), Huangpu, Shanghai, China, 200021

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Henry Curchod

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Gallery Vacancy is pleased to present Waterplay, the inaugural solo exhibition of Henry Curchod in Shanghai, on view from November 8 to December 21, 2024. On the occasion of this exhibition, the London-based artist debuts sixteen drawing-based paintings following a recent artist residency in Paxos, Greece. Using the leitmotif of sailors and fisherman: from depictions of life entwined with the sea, to their ancestral beliefs and maritime mythologies, this body of work not only illustrates the mercurial nature of the sea, but also serves as a poignant reminder of our dynamic relationship with it; presently safeguarded by a community that has itself been neglected.

Waterplay surveys the evolving vocabulary of his drawing practice, as raw, teetering gestural markings merge with the vibrant chromatic density of oil sticks – both vigorously and intimately. Employing an idiosyncratic fusion of drawing and painting, Curchod fundamentally underscores the immediacy...More expand_more