Brooke Benington is pleased to present Charismatics, a solo exhibition by Verity Coward. Building on her recent institutional debut at Flatland Projects, the exhibition brings together a series of paintings and a new sculptural installation.
Within Charismatics, the slack line of recognition is variously tightened and loosened between works. Landscape painting is rubbed down, emerging as the strange cousin of still life. Some paintings are tethered to a staged ‘real’ by stock imagery and emblems of our world –wads of cash, googly eyes, a rocket. These provide moments of connection amid the crash-bang of tangled forms and assertive structures. In other works, such familiar figures are absent, loosening the grip on reality.
Alongside the paintings, Coward expands her ongoing series of sculptural interventions using silver foil inflated with helium - ephemeral stunt doubles that find their absurd form and footing in the material world. The presence of these structures welcomes unpredictability, whilst their crude architecture instigates another removal from the real.
