Pae White: Too Much Night, Again

Published 01/05/2013

Inspired by a recent bout of insomnia, using the colours of Black Sabbath’s album cover from Master of Reality, which terrified the LA-based artist Pae White so much as a child that she had to hide it under her bed to be able to sleep, black and purple threads are strung across the lofty gallery, like on a loom

South London Gallery
13 March - 12 May 2013

by ANNA McNAY
Filmed by MARTIN KENNEDY

Knock, Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art

From slapstick to sarcasm, parody to political activism, this group show at the South London Gallery, curated by Ryan Gander and gallery director Margot Heller, interrogates contemporary artists’ diverse manipulations of humour as a compelling facet of human connection
Michael Armitage: ‘Can an art space function in the same way as a chapel?’

The artist weaves multiple narratives to evoke the complexity of East African society. Here, he talks about his exhibition The Chapel, at the South London Gallery, and how it gave him the chance to think about religion, spirituality and politics in a new way
Michael Dean: Sic Glyphs

Despite the urban construction materials, the steel bars and concrete slabs, there is a strong sense that the viewer must ‘read’ Michael Dean’s sculptures in order to make sense of them
Happy to scuff your floors for you, Murillo

In Murillo’s “resourceful” SLG exhibition, just one single patched black canvas hangs ragged on the wall, while the installation is largely made from the materials used in previous exhibitions.
New Order at Saatchi Gallery; Pae White at SLG; Rock on… at Serpentine Gallery

New Order: British Art Today at the Saatchi Gallery; Pae White at SLG; Rock on Top of Another Rock at the Serpentine Gallery. April/May 2013

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