“How to Show it” by Paul Carey-Kent
FAD Magazine
The gallery experience is work + space + installation, and while that is a sensible order of importance, the presentation can certainly make a big difference. Consider how the wrong airflow affects Alexander Calder’s mobiles, or the lighting. Sophia Contemporary trains floor-lights on Iranian-American Afruz Amighi’s evocative wall-sculpture combinations of female archetypes and symbolic objects, yielding ‘up-shadows’ to distinctive and somewhat uncanny effect. And Peer is leaving the lights on all night during the run of Catherine Story’s ‘Shadow’, making the most of a cinematically themed combination of painting and sculpture which cleverly turns the notably street-facing gallery into a cinematic backdrop for the action of Shoreditch locals.