Harriet Riddell and Michaela Younge: Meditation in Color

Running March 5 – April 19, C+N Canepaneri Gallery, Milan, hosts the latest show of young artists Harriet Riddell (Gloucester, 1990) and Michaela Younge (Cape Town, 1993), exhibiting for the first time in Milan. The project is titled “Meditation in Colour”, and is accompanied with a text by critic Lorenzo Bruni. The two artists use the art of cloth sewing in two different manners, giving life to figurative images. In these scenes narrated on cloth, the boundary between the surreal and the vulnerable is completely blurred.
Harriet Riddell’s works are inspired by places or people that she meets in person, creating unexpected performances and evoking a real conversation with the artistic subject. Michela Younge sews on merino wool, and creates splatter or grotesque scenes that often overstep into comedy, highlighting the social dynamics that govern our reality and unmasking its obsolete convictions with the intent to instill an innovative spirit in the viewer.