Simon Lee Gallery
Chibuike Uzoma - To Kick a Stone

Comprising colourful, abstruse portraitures against stark black and white backgrounds, the paintings in To Kick a Stone are deeply suggestive, but ultimately formalist explorations of shape and composition. Functioning as prompts, the paintings play on our proclivity to anthropomorphise and personify images. Probing the relationship between pictorial illusion, individual shapes and complete images, Uzoma’s new works are often bordered with lettering that doubles as a compositional element and an evocative detail for viewers to delve into.