Giovanelli’s figurative works are halted at a moment of imminent drama, at a threshold between states.  In isolation, each appears as a fragment of a narrative; placed together in dialogue they allude to archetypal and existential themes. In this work, Host, Giovanelli recreates a cropped section of Fra Angelico’s early renaissance work The Mocking of Christ, 1440. She presents a snapshot of Saint Dominic who sits in the foreground in the original; as in all Giovanelli’s figurative work, the stilled expression of the subject is enigmatic and ambiguous, simultaneously corporeal and rapturous.

A painting by Olivia Jia of an open photograph album upon which is a black and white photograph of a man leaning forwards to take a light from a feminine hand holding a match.

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Installation images of 'Interludes' a group exhibition at Workplace in London

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Louise Giovanelli

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