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Viewing Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

On Monday 8 November 2021 Sydney-based photographer David Prichard was named the winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, one of the most prestigious photography awards in the world. His winning portraits of First Nations stock women who have spent most of their working lives on cattle stations in Queensland, Australia, are now on display at Cromwell Place in South Kensington.

Reflecting on the series, Prichard said: ‘I have always been respectful of cultural and social sensitivities and subsequently built trust with the community, which led me to be invited to photograph the women. The project is not about me. I am only the vehicle for the women to tell their stories.’

Also featured in the exhibition are Pierre-Elie de Pibrac’s large-scale portraits taken in some of Japan’s most troubled regions including Fukushima and the former mining town of Yubari. Katya Ilina’s entry, David, is taken from a series of portraits that celebrates positive body image and questions notions of masculinity and femininity by highlighting their fluidity. De Pibrac and Ilina won second and third prize respectively.

The prize-winning photographs and those selected for inclusion in the exhibition were chosen from 5,392 submissions entered by 2,215 photographers from 62 countries. Speaking to the inner qualities of resilience, patience and persistence, these images hypnotize and will stop you in your tracks. Book tickets now.

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Dates
10 November 2021 — 02 January 2022

Viewing Noah Davis

Noah Davis was a genius talent who died too young. In August 2015 he succumbed to a rare form of cancer, just three months after turning 32. But his legacy lives on, as a brilliant new solo show at David Zwirner proves.

As well as being a gifted painter, Davis was co-founder of the Underground Museum, an artist-and family-run space dedicated to the exhibition of museum-quality art in a culturally underserved African American and Latino neighbourhood in Los Angeles.

Organised by Helen Molesworth, former chief curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, this exhibition highlights both parts of Davis’s practice. On display are a group of his rigorously composed paintings as well as models, artworks and archival materials that tell the story of the Underground Museum.

Using a notably dry paint application and a moody palette of blues, purples, and greens, Davis made figurative paintings that nod to artists like Marlene Dumas, Kerry James Marshall and Luc Tuymans. But his pictures can be slightly deceptive, says Molesworth. ‘They are modest in scale while being emotionally ambitious.’

At Zwirner, there are paintings from everyday life, such as a portrait of his young son, and paintings tinged with a hint of magical realism. You’ll encounter ‘surreal images that depict the world both seen and unseen, where the presence of ancestors, ghosts, and fantasy are everywhere apparent,’ adds Molesworth. These paintings demand slow, considered looking and show Davis to be one of the brightest stars of his generation.

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Dates
08 October 2021 — 17 November 2021

Viewing 528Hz Love Frequency

Historic Houghton Hall provides the setting for this major solo exhibition of holographic artworks, prints and large immersive laser and LED installations by British artist Chris Levine. Created specifically for the house and gardens, this new body of work explores Levine’s continued interest in the mediative and immersive properties of light and sound.

While there’s something to look forward to around every corner, the star of the show is Molecule of Light, a monumental spherical structure installed on the front lawn. The vast sculptural work emits a sound beam with modulating frequencies that Levine hopes will draw visitors into a brief mediative state. At night, it stands at the heart of an immersive field of laser lights that illuminate the grounds of Houghton as never before.

‘All my endeavours to create work that is truly experiential and transformative have brought me to this defining moment,’ Levine said. ‘I’ve always sought to create art that draws the viewer to stillness and into a meditative expansive state.’ Get thee to Norfolk now.

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Dates
22 October 2021 — 23 December 2021
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