Christina Quarles @ South London Gallery

Christina Quarles creates surreal and deliberately ambiguous images of bodies that seem barely contained by the frame of the canvas. This display, In Likeness, brings together Quarles’s vibrant and textured paintings, as well as works on paper.  The figures in Quarles’s expressive, large-scale paintings are an embodiment of her own perspective on the world and she has described them as conveying ‘the experience of living in a body rather than looking at a body.’