Emma Prempeh - The Nearness of Elsewhere, 2025

The painting stops you before you have had a chance to prepare yourself for it. At the scale of a wall — a work this large does not hang in a room so much as reorganise it — The Nearness of Elsewhere folds two realities into one continuous surface: on the left, the amber-lit interior of a living room at night, a sofa, a fireplace, pendant lights casting warm cones of shadow, the whole scene given an otherworldly charge by a large rectangle of beaten schlag metal, a brass alloy that i

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