Minor Attractions, London

For the third edition of Minor Attractions, Brooke Benington presents a three artist conversation in Room 18 of The Mandrake Hotel; with Luisen Zela-Koort, Yeni Mao and Alan Stanners, linking sculpture and painting through questions of form, system and self. In tandem with Luisen’s Fitzrovia solo Natural Factories running concurently at our Fitzrovia gallery nearby, their works translate biological and cosmic processes into precise, sensual geometries that move from the microscopic to the galactic. Mao’s two sculptures stage a tension between framework and body, coupling chromed metal armatures with natural materials, in one leather strap-work and in the other volcanic rock from Mexico. Stanners contributes two paintings and two preparatory drawings in which imagined figures are held in charged fields of colour, where the familiar edges toward the uncanny. Together the works treat the surface as a site of memory and control, asking how materials, images and myths organise our sense of the human.