Hannah Silver

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Hannah Silver

The first impression of entering Jenny Saville’s major retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery in London is one of raw, ample flesh. Viscerally rendered, luscious expanses of flesh create a vulnerable yet powerful aura around Saville’s women, who fill her vast canvases, unabashedly and gloriously taking up space. Installation view, Jenny Saville, Propped, 1992, private collection(Image credit: © Jenny Saville, courtesy Gagosian.

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Hannah Silver

UK-born, California-based Penny Slinger vividly brings to life the hazy hinterland between women’s sexuality, mysticism and mythology, emphatically emphasising a feminine strength across works that span photography, sculpture and video. Slinger has drawn from constants – her body, nature, landscape – throughout her career, translating the feminine into surreal collages and photographs.

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Hannah Silver

Wolfgang Tillmans’ ‘Rien ne nous y préparait – Tout nous y préparait’ (Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us) spreads out across the entire 6,000 sq m of Centre Pompidou’s Bibliothèque Publique d’Information. The library has mostly been cleared, its contents relocated for the restoration process that will see the Pompidou close for five years once Tillmans’ exhibition ends.

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Hannah Silver

‘Connecting my story to my forebears; the people who came before me, the people who are around me and the people who are yet to come, seems quite natural to me,’ says American essayist Jeremy Atherton Lin. ‘Hopefully we don’t just talk about ourselves, but we talk about ourselves in context.’I’m speaking to Lin over Zoom upon the publication of his new book, Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told.

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Hannah Silver

The experience of looking at Megan Rooney’s work is full of surprises. Immediately striking is the size – Rooney paints freely in the ‘wingspan’ format, where she paints as far as her arm can reach – and in the glorious gradients of colours. Look closer, and stories begin to reveal themselves in the fluidity of the works, rich in references and physical touchpoints.