Written in the early 1900s, the haunting words in the sonnet of the great American lyrical poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, find new meaning in Pictorum Gallery’s eponymous exhibition.
The exhibition’s curator, Josephine Bailey, said of the poem, “[the poem] feels like such a Romantic and almost old-Hollywood way of measuring time,” referring to Millay’s burning cigarette metaphor. Indeed, the ‘old-Hollywood’ essence, the intersection of enduring themes of nostalgia and the dissipation of love, and Millay’s curated blend of periods through rhythm and word choice are perfectly visualised in the works of the exhibition’s nine international artists – Leily Moghtader Mojdehi, Tosin Kalejaye, Naomi Boiko, Olamide Ogunade, Elena Rivera-Montanes, Verde, Nina Baxter, Johanna Bath, Brittany Fanning.
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