Sedrick Chisom
The Drunk Cooldown Rhythms Capitulated By a Deserter of The Southern Cross on Intimate Terms with Catastrophe, 2020
Oil, acrylic, spray paint, and watercolor pencil on tiled sheets of paper glued to canvas
182.9 x 127 cm
72 x 51 in
72 x 51 in
Copyright The Artist
Further images
At the centre of Chisom’s practice is a commitment to confounding racial origin myths and pseudosciences toward creating apocalyptic fantasies in writing and painting. Appropriating imagery from Black Lives Matter...
At the centre of Chisom’s practice is a commitment to confounding racial origin myths and pseudosciences toward creating apocalyptic fantasies in writing and painting. Appropriating imagery from Black Lives Matter demonstrations, medieval Christian iconography, and Greek mythology, Chisom questions who has the power to construct natural and social worlds, upending the authority of those worlds in the process.
The Drunk Cooldown Rhythms Capitulated By a Deserter of The Southern Cross on Intimate Terms with Catastrophe, 2020 Chisom is using the trope of the drunken soldier laying under the tree. He is hopelessly resigned and irredeemable yet yearning for some form of retreat, most probably from his immediately embodied circumstances. “There is this uneasy atmosphere of fatalism (of heading towards anticipated doom) that I am always trying to capture within falsely quiet moments. What is referred to as a ‘calm before a storm’”.
The Drunk Cooldown Rhythms Capitulated By a Deserter of The Southern Cross on Intimate Terms with Catastrophe, 2020 Chisom is using the trope of the drunken soldier laying under the tree. He is hopelessly resigned and irredeemable yet yearning for some form of retreat, most probably from his immediately embodied circumstances. “There is this uneasy atmosphere of fatalism (of heading towards anticipated doom) that I am always trying to capture within falsely quiet moments. What is referred to as a ‘calm before a storm’”.
Exhibitions
2021: Twenty Thousand Years of Fire and Snow, Pilar Corrias, London (15/07/21 - 20/08/21)2022-2023 : In the Black Fantastic, group show, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL (19 November 2022 - 10 April 2023) Touring exhibition
2022: In the Black Fantastic, group show, Hayward Gallery, London (29 June - 18 September) Touring exhibition
2021: Twenty Thousand Years of Fire and Snow, Solo, Pilar Corrias (54 Eastcastle Street), London, (15 July - 21 August 2021)