- Venue
- Muse Gallery
- Starts
- Tuesday, May 27, 2008
- Ends
- Sunday, June 15, 2008
- Address
- 269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
- Location
- London
Russian born Evy Jokhova is a multi disciplinary artist whose practice is defined by her interest in fantasy and fairytales. Having been an artist in residence at Muse Gallery, this exhibition is the culmination of six months work. Inspired by magic realism literature by writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Mikhail Bulgakov, Jokhova bends everyday reality into the shape of a window unto a world where creatures emerge from the everyday. Previous works employed repetition and layering to create multifaceted imagery and installations that appeared to sprout from the gallery walls. Her creatures are essentially hybrids of reality and imagination, emerging between the fibers of our perception. Now her creatures are beginning to find purposes of their own, such as the Spider Book-Makers. Furthermore, she has begun to chart the territories that these creatures occupy, creating a vast and rich world to engage her audience with. This emerging grand narrative begins to take shape in a new series of maps alongside the creatures themselves. For example, Jokhova’s ‘Roof Tile Beatles’ rely on the other species for their everyday needs due to their lethargy. This sort of narrative gives her worlds a new depth, taking the interchangeability of visual and literary forms to new heights.
