Noisy World

Steve Perfect, curated by Nadine Lockyer

8 May – 1 June 25

These drawings happen in another universe, a universe close to our own, but separated by a sheet of paper. Here things are pushed together unexpectedly. Georgio Morandi and Gerald Scarfe at adjacent tables in a crowded cafe. Francis Bacon sitting next to Yogi Bear on the bus home. Drawing lifts off, flies, goes in two directions at once, backwards, upside-down. While it definitely is something, often it’s actually against something: against perspective, against logic, common sense, common decency. It’s against illusion, against the artificial, the artistic, against art. It’s in defiance of a messy vision, a noisy world.