Georgia Spain
Time is the thing a body moves through
October 1, 2022 - October 22, 2022
People are repeatedly together in Georgia Spain’s paintings. In their collectivity, they’re always in the middle of something — often the most cataclysmic and euphoric moments of existence.
With limbs akimbo, flesh melting into flesh, Spain has a sea of figures awash in a tsunami, or wielded together as flood waters sweep in. In another painting, she has four people lying languidly, near-nude on a bed. Together, but at a distance; millennial in the way that writer Sally Rooney is millennial. Other canvases contain a sheer jumble of bodies, signalling the messiness that however much power we might ascribe to solipsism or individuality, we are inescapably tied up with another.
Tiarney Miekus, 2022
