Opening: 16 November, 6pm
 
Example 2 :

I just feel so gross
Consumer waste like the apocalypse of my laziness is coming any minute and I deserve it.
You know
A war I didn’t try and stop.
A Global warming disaster I contributed to.
A solar flair I didn’t prep for.
Or just the suffering of all the people I passively exploit by eating too many cheap pieces of chocolate.

That apocalypse is already going on for sure.

Anon
 

Edwards’ exhibition at ALMANAC London, follows her residency and exhibition at ALMANAC INN Turin last autumn. Both exhibitions investigated cyclical consumption and waste, overload and expulsion, digestion, and the season of autumn - a time to take stock in preparation for harder times to come.
Large-scale banner paintings on hand sewn and dyed fabrics are a development of a new painting style for Edwards, in which varying painting techniques and reference points appear on the same surface. Giant women with mask like faces, eating yogurt, are reminiscent of anti consumerist art at festivals. Teenage female characters also inhabit the paintings, made with attempted reference to painters Trevor Brown, Mark Ryden, and the ‘lowbrow’ art movement, which feature kitsch, fetishistic images of women and young girls. Where as Brown’s women appear bruised, injured, tied up or surrounded by medical fetish paraphernalia, Edwards’s characters are ‘pained’ in less stylised and sexualised ways that are more relatable to every day life; ‘bloated’ women who need a shit are annoyed, uncomfortable or anxious.
These works appear surrounded by a mixture of natural and man made waste - autumn leaves, cardboard and rubbish from the streets.

During the weekend of the 24th and 25th an additional work will take place in the gallery, where the space is “activated” using immersive projections and sound. With characters in the paintings operating as actors, dramatised, augmented versions of real life people will form a fan fictional audio-visual collage, or ‘play’ on some of the themes of the exhibition.
 
The exhibition will be open every day 2-6pm.

 
https://www.ruthangeledwards.com/