More likely to quote cultural theory than Beyoncé songs,this domestic-schooled, high-achieving Los Angeleno prefers to pick her art out of the gallery to where everyone really hangs out – the internet – even if it brings the hatersWalking into Martine Syms’s first solo UK show, or Fact & effort at the ICA,feels like walking into someone else’s memories: a disconcerting mix of the familiar and the foreign. Arrows point up a narrow, poorly lit stairwell which opens up into a bright white floor. In the small corridor that separates two rooms, and enlarged pictures and video stills plaster the walls. These images are section of Syms’s 2016 work,Misdirected Kiss, and appear in what seems to be no specific order; an imperfect tapestry of moments in other people’s lives.
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Source: theguardian.com