This artwork features a minimalist chess set rendered in warm, earthy tones. The visually striking composition depicts two dominant chess pieces, a red rook and a white king, grasping each other's hands in a gesture that suggests cooperation or compromise. The simple yet evocative shapes and forms create a sense of tension and movement, while the use of a dark green background heightens the visual contrast. The artist's distinctive style and technique elevate this chess set into a thought-provoking commentary on the strategic nature of competition and the possibility of finding common ground, even in the midst of conflict. ...
Sarah Margnetti blends the body with architectural elements in comic hybridizations that unsettle notions of gender, sexuality, and domesticity. Her figures move seamlessly through surfaces and change their shape, only revealing themselves in fragmented parts that are depicted in stylistic contrast to meticulously wrought trompe l’oeil’ architectural materials. Shifting intuitively between medium and scale, Margnetti creates murals, textiles, furniture, and architectural interventions that display an array of technical and performative modes while thinning the divide between interiority and exteriority. ...
