Alex Boican Political Allegory 19 October - 1 November

'Political Allegory'

Alex Boican

This work addresses the current social and political situation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, through the employment of the now ubiquitous mask and the vampire. The mask has become a powerful symbol of the pandemic and the debates it has provoked has charged it with conflicting meanings. The vampire has always been a powerful metaphor for corrupt politics. Marx has famously used it to describe the nature of capital: insatiable greed for its own sake. As such, the conundrum in which the vampire finds itself when faced with the mask is meant to signify the predicament of the present time.

Alex Boican is a self-taught painter and graphic artist. In his work reality is transfigured by imagination, in search of a balance between the figurative and the abstract.

'Political Allegory'

Alex Boican

Pencil on paper mounted on card

12x9 cm

2020

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EXHIBITIONS COMING SOON:

Charlotte Chapman 'LIARS' 13th to 26th July 2020

LIARS

Liars is an installation that is based on a larger piece of work that was completed on 5th July. I have been making art about the pandemic and my thoughts through this time since February, when the first mass scale hospitals were built in Wuhan. I have collected responses from 257 local residents about the pandemic which have been archived at Folkestone Museum. More information about my work can be found at charlottechapman.co.uk

LIARS

Indian ink on 200gsm cartridge paper
Explores political incidents, government responses and guidelines during the pandemic.

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Exhibitions Coming Soon:

Threadbare Woman - 27th July to 9th August

Katie Bradley - 10th August to 23rd August

Shane Record - 24th August to 6th September

Constance MacQueen - 7th September to 20th September

Sutured Specimens - 21st September to 4th October

Robyn Neild - 5th to 18th October