Look out for an intriguing pop-up show launching tonight, curated by Natalia Zagorska-Thomas, an artist born in Warsaw, Poland.
“A couple of years ago we built a studio/gallery space inside our flat in Camden Street,” she says. “We called it Studio Ex Purgamento. This time we’ve got 14 international contributors including artists, architects, poets, set designers, conservators and composers.”
Zagorska-Thomas uses broken and discarded everyday objects in a way which changes or confuses their original function. “It’s an attempt to manipulate their meaning,” she says.
After studying fine art in Australia, she moved to London in the late 1980s and graduated from Central St Martins.
This year’s show is called Us About Face, and promises “never-seen-before masks by an international tribe of uncertain origin and dubious customs.”
Okaaay. And remember, after all that ambiguity, one thing’s for sure: you can pig out on some of the capital’s finest chicken round the corner too. Yum.
