Bend Towards the Sun
September 15 — October 22, 2022
21st Street
Your exhibition began as a sort of mathematical experiment with the space of painting. Your operation was to take the precise number of canvases, the exact sizes and shapes provided by Goya’s Black Paintings, and then fill these in with your own imagery. So you started by blanking out Goya, taking up only the spatial schema of his Quinta del Sordo, and this prescribed structure became your empty canvas.
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About
Jill Mulleady (b. 1980, Montevideo, Uruguay) is lives and works between Los Angeles and Paris. She works primarily in painting and she often intervenes in the spaces where she exhibits, staging the paintings with readymades, sculptures, and architectural installations, exploring themes of memory, transformation, and the power of history. In her work, references to historical painting are put into communication with images taken from both popular culture and personal life, creating an anachronic feeling of merged and frictional temporalities. Her practice shifts between close observations of everyday reality and highly elaborated imaginary worlds. These paintings can be seen as allegories for the contemporary experience of the image as an interface: not just a picture but a means of mobilizing attention, bodies and affects within an increasingly virtualized social space.
She has had solo exhibitions at LUMA Arles, France; Gladstone Gallery, New York (2022); Le Consortium, Dijon (2021); Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (2020); Swiss Institute, New York (2019); Galerie Neu, Berlin (2018); Schloss, Oslo (2018); Kunsthalle Bern (2017); and Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (2015). In 2019 Mulleady’s work was included in May You Live in Interesting Times at the 58th Venice Biennale.
