‘This coinciding of colour and climate catastrophe – as deeply implicated, rather than merely illustrative – is one place to start with painter Kat Lyons’s body of work. Colour, as a mercurial physical phenomenon, smudges any easy distinction between nature and artifice, perception and reality, the domesticated and the wild. Lyons is deeply invested in the muddying of these categories, and the ways we use them to confer value and meaning on the non-human world. Her paintings create palimpsests of their subjects, refusing to settle on or suggest any one reading or interpretation. An animal depicted in her work, therefore, is never singular but multiple; it is all at once: meat, agriculture, symbol, fantasy, nostalgia, political subject, mirror, technology, companion, prey, deity, enemy. It is, in other words, a herd, a flock, a swarm. Or better, a swarming.’ – Daisy Lafarge
Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Pilar Corrias is pleased to present a booklet with new writing by Amber Husain and Daisy Lafarge. Designed by Galicheva–Gahlen.
Booklet not for sale. Please contact the gallery for any enquiries.