FON
Jo
Wilmot
Wilmot’s
practice is concerned with the failure of perceived luxury settings to
create paradise. Her distopian paintings explore the idea of fractured
pleasure.
In the ‘Hotel’ series exhibited at Gallery 33 the hermetically sealed global interstitial spaces of five star hotels are presented as airless, oppressive and banal. In such environments architecture is used as a starting point for control of emotions and where fantasy always falls short.
Packed full of painterly devices; including drips and smears, the works are unsettling and often claustrophobic.
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