Location
SW1P 4RG
Dates
This exhibition runs from Fri, 19th Jan 2024 to Sun, 23rd Jun 2024.
Forthcoming dates:
Cost: Free of Charge
Description
An exhibition of delicate and intimate paintings and drawings from Kenyan-born, London-based artist Zeinab Saleh.
Suggesting both fleeting movement and suspended time, these works draw on everyday experiences, personal encounters and the dreamlike quality of memory. This is the latest in Tate Britain’s ongoing Art Now series of free exhibitions showcasing emerging talent and highlighting the latest developments in contemporary British art.
Saleh’s new body of work for Tate Britain has been made using acrylic paint, charcoal and soft pastels. Through her materials and colour palette, the viewer is invited into a place of calm contemplation. Her paintings and drawings are ambiguous in subject and setting. Layers of time and meaning are projected onto the works through recurring patterns and silhouettes, alluding to narratives that are rarely fully revealed.
Zeinab Saleh is a multidisciplinary artist whose unique visual language sees the use of acrylic, charcoal and chalk swept across the canvas, revealing depths of texture. Shade and colour are presented in tender, pale hues. Within her work, she aims to provide ‘spaces for the viewer’s imagination to continue the painting’, encouraging prolonged and active looking. These light, delicate spaces are occupied by forms which appear to float, only becoming temporarily grounded as the viewer’s gaze is drawn to heavier areas of acrylic paint. Saleh describes this effect as a ‘temporal shift’ between movement and stillness. The recurring motifs which populate her works act similarly, slipping between representation and abstraction. The power of these ethereal paintings and drawings is held in their ability to both invite and escape immediate interpretation.
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This exhibition runs from Fri, 19th Jan 2024 to Sun, 23rd Jun 2024
This event runs over several days/weeks. Dates include:
May 2024
- Mon, 13th May 2024
Closed - Tue, 14th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 15th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 16th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 17th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sat, 18th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 19th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 20th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 21st May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 22nd May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 23rd May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 24th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sat, 25th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 26th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 27th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 28th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 29th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 30th May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 31st May 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm)
June 2024
- Sat, 1st Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 2nd Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 3rd Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 4th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 5th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 6th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 7th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sat, 8th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 9th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 10th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 11th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 12th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 13th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 14th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sat, 15th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 16th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 17th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 18th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 19th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 20th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 21st Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sat, 22nd Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 23rd Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm)
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