Golden Rays

About

Kwant’s bold and colourful screen prints playfully reinterpret the contemporary socio-political migrant crisis often focusing upon a central character who’s taken out of their context. Dynamic compositions are executed with newspaper-like halftone quality; bodies contorted, are edited and reinterpreted. Figures embody positions of victory, aspiration, resignation and defeat. Brightly coloured backgrounds are carefully hand painted using everyday household paint, chosen specifically for their idealised titles - “Utopia Beckons, Fare Thee Well, No Boundaries, Sundown, Adrift at Sea, California Dreaming, Golden Rays, English Primrose...” The resulting body of work aims to open up tensions and paradoxes between the subject and their designated titles. Kwant speaks of this tension as ‘opening up a space to question wider narratives, how identity is constructed and ultimately how history is recorded.’ The work is intended to be presented in sets or groups, allowing for a multiplicity of readings and interpretations to emerge.

Each print will be shipped with a certificate of authenticity, signed by the artist.

Prints are shipped flat in a cardboard envelope.