Red Elation Gallery presents the solo exhibition titled “A Violation of Symmetry” by Orlando Campbell, an established young artist from London who studied painting at Central St Martins. Orlando is focusing in painting, historic woodcarving and sculpture. This exhibition will show his new series of paintings and sculptures. “A Violation of Symmetry” not only refers to the asymmetric condition of the work, but also reflects an imminent danger or threat, associated with ‘special’ or individually significant objects, as with fetish objects.

Orlando’s paintings are often based on a collection of objects and images from which a subtext is drawn, using them as existing visual codes from which to create a new visual language. The imagery remains ambiguous, but provokes a primal feeling of recognition. These paintings exemplify a way of combining painting and sculpture, evoking both past and present. With such works, the intended juxtaposition of subject, process and medium remains playful yet elegant, provoking a certain sense of malaise. As objects they can both displace and be displaced.

-Red Elation Gallery

Image: © Orlando Campbell
Courtesy of the artist and Red Elation