Charlotte Hopkins Hall on her new work Barriers and Quagmires
Charlotte Hopkins Hall
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Throughout her trademark aesthetic of finely painted and visually strict imagery, Charlotte Hopkins Hall brings us a sharp scrutiny of the paradigms that have embedded recent political and social moeurs. The stark canvases disclose a real fear of losing free will in a world gripped by social media and clannist ways of thinking. In an age of anger where shouting above the other has become a norm and exclusion as a punishment for non-conformity to the neo-social protocol, Hopkins Hall paints a visual expression that ranges from tongue-in-cheek to serious subject matters.
As a nod to an era indisputably saturated with images of the face, Hopkins Hall uses the image of her own back as a motif that is repeated ad-nauseum. This obsessive repetition is used to various ends, thematically and visually. In conjunction with the titles, that are meant as mini manifestos, we are immersed into an absurd world in which the figures play out their roles conducted by Hopkins Hall as the puppet master.
Charlotte Hopkins Hall is a painter who lives and works in London. Since graduating from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Geneva, now HEAD, her work has been exhibited internationally, notably at the Palazzo Strozzi, …
Throughout her trademark aesthetic of finely painted and visually strict imagery, Charlotte Hopkins Hall brings us a sharp scrutiny of the paradigms that have embedded recent political and social moeurs. The stark canvases disclose a real fear of losing free will in a world gripped by social media and clannist ways of thinking. In an age of anger where shouting above the other has become a norm and exclusion as a punishment for non-conformity to the neo-social protocol, Hopkins Hall paints a visual expression that ranges from tongue-in-cheek to serious subject matters.
As a nod to an era indisputably saturated with images of the face, Hopkins Hall uses the image of her own back as a motif that is repeated ad-nauseum. This obsessive repetition is used to various ends, thematically and visually. In conjunction with the titles, that are meant as mini manifestos, we are immersed into an absurd world in which the figures play out their roles conducted by Hopkins Hall as the puppet master.
Charlotte Hopkins Hall is a painter who lives and works in London. Since graduating from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Geneva, now HEAD, her work has been exhibited internationally, notably at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, and the Walker Gallery, Liverpool. Charlotte Hopkins Hall has been selected for a number of awards including the Swiss Art Awards, the John Moores Painting Prize, and the Aesthetica Art Prize. Her work is in private collections in Europe and the United States.
Courtesy of the Artist
Born 1979
Hometown Geneva, Switzerland
Lives and Works London, UK
Education
BA Fine Art, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Genève, Switzerland, 2004
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