Frith Street Gallery

Golden Square

17-18 Golden Square, London W1F 9JJ
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ANNA BARRIBALL: Posters, leaves and photographs, drawings, detachment and intimacy ~ Chris Fite-Wassilak

Published in Frieze, April 2009

Barriball’s work hovers between states, playfully bouncing between documentation and transformation, detachment and intimacy. In her recent exhibition at London’s Frith Street Gallery, the floor was seemingly scattered with leaves, a serene autumnal scene for a pleasant stroll. Each leaf in Untitled (2008), however, was a piece of cloth cut from the patterns of second hand curtains; countless inane floral draperies and vegetal patterns given a new, theatrical life that was neither natural nor domestic, though still relying on both.

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