Saelia Aparicio

Saelia Aparicio’s multidisciplinary practice – which spans sculpture and assemblage, large-scale drawings and paintings, videos and installations – is speculative by nature and involves the construction of fictional, liminal worlds. The hybridised bodies within this universe often represented as line drawings on walls or rendered as colourful, free-standing sculptures, are ethereal, uncanny, and almost human. Embodying both utopia and dystopia and blurring the separation between the two, these characters are contorted into the shape of seats or adorned with sprawling plants, lights and mouth-blown glassware. In addition, Aparicio subtly discusses the climate and housing crises, invasive species – both human and otherwise – and pollution. Her work invites the viewer to imagine alternative futures, at once wholesome, generative, and thoroughly catastrophic. ...

Kate MacGarry Gallery, established in 2002, is a contemporary art gallery located in East London at 27 Old Nichol Street, within a space designed by British architect Tony Fretton. Over the years, the gallery has expanded its representation to include 25 emerging and established artists, as well as two artist estates. Many of the gallery's represented artists had their first commercial solo exhibitions at Kate MacGarry and have gone on to achieve international success. Their works have been showcased at leading institutions worldwide, including MoMA, Documenta, the Venice Biennale, Tate, MCA Chicago, Prada Foundation, The Walker Art Center, Barbican, New Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Kunstverein Hamburg, and Kettle's Yard, among others. ...