“I’ve selected things that I love by dint of their poetry, their beauty, their refusal, their internal logic and, above all, their power. Each artist here invents the language they need, and there is magic in it.” – Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Join us this November to hear Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in conversation at MK Gallery’s Sky Room with Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, interdisciplinary artists and founders of The Otolith Group.
As the curator of our upcoming exhibition, To Improvise A Mountain, Yiadom-Boakye has selected works by 17 artists, including The Otolith Group, working internationally from the nineteenth century to the present day. Artworks on display—featuring painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and film—have been personally chosen by the artist and shine a light on Yiadom-Boakye’s artistic process. This in conversation event will give audiences the chance to hear from one of Britain’s most exciting figurative painters and will offer a rare insight into her creative practice.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977, London) depicts imagined subjects, inspired by stories, memory and images that the artist collects, and which are interwoven into oil paintings and charcoal sketches. Her work is inspired by painting, music and poetry—an interconnectedness that informs the process of selecting works on display at MK Gallery.
To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates is inspired by a phrase/line in Miles Davis’s song, ‘Inamorata’ (1971): “Who is this music that which description may never justify? / Can the ocean be described?” For Yiadom-Boakye, painting—like poetry—translates the intangible into images.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye will be in conversation at MK Gallery Sky Room, Saturday 8th November, 2:30pm.
Guests can also visit To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates at a discounted rate.
Tickets from £10
