‘3 Streets Away’ / ‘No-Exit’, London, 2019
This was a group show in Borough, London, in response to an exhibition by the painter, Dorothea Tanning which was showing 3 streets away at the Tate Modern. Gail selected a body of her own past works, which she felt illustrated some of the abstract painterly elements that she was gratified to recognise in Tanning’s own exploration. The 12 pieces were integrated into an installation, providing the ‘detail’ on which the eye could rest from the rhythmic movement within the whole.
An initial prompt for the installation was Sagman’s identification with Tannings’ painterly statement of ‘dissolving into and breaking out from space’. Finding a poignancy in her reference to her art being ‘the raft’ Gail invited musician and performer, Georgia Collins to enact her piece on this theme, within ‘No Exit’. Dorothea Tanning ; ’No such thing as women artists...you may be a women and you may be an artist ; but the one is a given and the other is you’
An initial prompt for the installation was Sagman’s identification with Tannings’ painterly statement of ‘dissolving into and breaking out from space’. Finding a poignancy in her reference to her art being ‘the raft’ Gail invited musician and performer, Georgia Collins to enact her piece on this theme, within ‘No Exit’. Dorothea Tanning ; ’No such thing as women artists...you may be a women and you may be an artist ; but the one is a given and the other is you’
