With its overindulgent festivities and short-lived New Year promises of abstention, the holiday season is officially behind us. We return reluctantly to the grey mundanity of a generic London winter. To those stubborn souls who refuse to surrender to an eremitic February existence I offer refuge in Alicia Radage's latest exhibition, 'Dream of the Mother Language', currently on view at Pictorum Gallery. A vision in pink, this futuristic dreamscape is not afraid of tapping into the uncanny, with surreal sculptures of mutated body parts that skilfully blur the boundaries between humans and nature, hinting at the primordial knowledge stored in our subconsciousness.
I met with the artist last week for an animated discussion. We touched on her desire to portray female resilience, her affinity with mythological narratives and her experimentation with physical theatricality.