Racheal Crowther at Chisenhale Gallery
Sometimes an artwork, or indeed an exhibition, has so much to say, it's hard to know exactly where to start in trying to unpack it all. Racheal Crowther's solo exhibition, Liquid Trust, at Mile End's Chisenhale Gallery, comes at a time of ever turbulent geopolitical and international tension, but the artist distils this into something that feels more quotidian and perhaps insidious: the management of behaviours in public and private settings. By way of introduction, it can be said that something the exhibition does in its complexities is illuminate the various ways contemporary art operates. There is no doubt that specific art audiences travel to come to the Chisenhale Gallery's shows, as I did, due to its strong art-world reputation. However, in Crowther's grappling of military, health, and state service aesthetics, the old world of art is brought to its knees, in favour of activating a different kind of emotive or sensory experience in its audiences. No pretty pic...
