TextThea Hawlin

Sep 7, 2023 | anothermag.com | Thea Hawlin |TextThea Hawlin

As her new show opens at Victoria Miro Venice, British painter Chantal Joffe talks about her surreal summer spent working in the Italian city, and why it felt like “learning to see again” Contrary to the name of her new exhibition in Venice, there is no eel to be found in Chantal Joffe’s latest show, though she did buy one at the Rialto fish market and carry it back to her studio under the sweltering August sun (following in the footsteps of the photographer Francesca Woodman).