Paper Gallery’s February exhibition sees artists Hannah Wooll and Ange Ong interrogate our understanding of ‘home’ as both a physical space and as an idea. In Interior World, Macclessfield-based artist Hannah Wooll (her work Blue Room is pictured) uses media found in junk shops to paint starkly lit female figures amongst oppressively large household objects. The palate is oddly bright and the figures are not quite to scale, so that the women appear to exist in a surreal yet familiar domestic space. New York based Ange Ong looks in a broader sense at the idea of home in her series, Hong Kong Cafe. Meticulously constructed ‘sets’ represent the cafes of Ange’s childhood, recreated from memory in impossibly pastel shades. The carefully chosen objects in the photographs showing how ‘things’ – an umbrella, a bowl – become symbols of identity, connecting us to an idea of home. For more previews of Manchester’s best art exhibitions, click here.
Sat 17 Feb – Sat 31 Mar, Paper Gallery, Mirabel Studios, 14-20 Mirabel Street, Manchester, M3 1PJ, times & days vary, FREE, www.paper-gallery.co.uk
- Words:
- Olivia Rye
- Published on:
- Wed 21 Mar 2018
