TAKING COURAGE
Angela Massalu
20 February - 20 March 2025
Private view: Thursday 20 February, 6-8pm.
Texts:
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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
Exhibition view: Angela Maasalu 'Taking Courage' at Lungley Gallery, London.
Mouthpiece (2024)
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Ringing (2024)
Oil on canvas
134 x 108 cm
Exhibition view: Angela Maasalu 'Taking Courage' at Lungley Gallery, London.
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.
Gluttony (2024)
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Exhibition view: Angela Maasalu 'Taking Courage' at Lungley Gallery, London.
Smoking Monkey (2024)
Oil on an canvas
41 x 33 cm
On Absence (2024)
Oil on canvas
51 x 41 cm
Exhibition view: Angela Maasalu 'Taking Courage' at Lungley Gallery, London.
Maudlin dreams (2024)
Oil on canvas
91.5 x 66 cm
Untitled (2024)
Pencil and ink on archival paper
28.5 x 37 cm
Untitled (2024)
Pencil and ink on archival paper
39.5 x 31.5 cm