TAKING COURAGE
Angela Massalu
20 February - 20 March 2025
Private view: Thursday 20 February, 6-8pm.
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Taking Courage by Orlando Reade
This text was commissioned to accompany the exhibition.
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This exhibition marks the beginning of a collaboration between Lungley and Des Bains (a short walk from one another) in Central London, the exhibition will span both spaces.
Lungley Gallery @lungleygallery
37 Foley Street, London, W1W 7TN.
Des Bains @des.bains
20 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 8QR.
Take Courage (2024)
Oil on canvas
120 x 120cm
Angela Maasalu’s paintings feel like the quiet, half-remembered fragments occupying a world where time folds in on itself. Her figures, often hazy and spectral, seem to exist in a space where stories from childhood, folklore, and the deep recesses of personal experience merge into one another. It’s not about clarity, but about the way certain images stick to one's memory, refusing to leave, and is difficult to pin down why. Always out of search.