Racheal Crowther review – unnerving installation attacks your mind … and your nostrils!
Chisenhale Gallery, LondonThe Irish artist scrambles your brain by cleverly combining calming pastel pinks with austere military health units and suffocating smellsThe Chisenhale Gallery smells weirdly sweet. Somewhere between butter...
By Eddy Frankel · The Guardian Culture
Chisenhale Gallery, London The Irish artist scrambles your brain by cleverly combining calming pastel pinks with austere military health units and suffocating smells The Chisenhale Gallery smells weirdly sweet. Somewhere between butter and Parma Violets, but more acrid, intensely chemical. It’s an olfactory assault, half soothing and familiar, half violent and unnatural. That’s the strange, unsettling middle ground that young London-based artist Racheal Crowther likes to inhabit. Just look at what she has done here in her first institutional exhibition, in which baby pink gentleness and terrifying hard-edged military aesthetics collide. Continue reading...