Exhibition of New Work by Rachel Kneebone Presented at White Cube

LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents an exhibition of new work by Rachel Kneebone. Over the last few years, Kneebone has created a unique space in contemporary art with her expressive and delicately worked porcelain sculptures. The exhibition is in two parts: ‘Lamentations 2010’ in the ground floor gallery and in the first floor gallery, ‘Shields’ (2010). ‘Lamentations 2010’ is the title for two sets of three sculptures that were created in the pursuit of forms that could express the trauma of death, loss and grief. Kneebone started with the theme of death in the work, ‘As grave as the imagined as frivolous as the eternal’, addressing each of these universal experiences sequentially, in three separate works. Kneebone confronts grief by casting a female figure at the centre of the sculpture ‘Eyes that look close at wounds themselves are wounded’. In this work, the thick vine-like cord wraps itself tightly round the pli

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