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20 May 2024

Peter Blake reviewed in ArtReview

"In Blake’s works, there’s a pleasure in the textures of printed or material matters"

Yuwen Jiang writes: "In Blake’s works, there’s a pleasure in the textures of printed or material matters, beneath which is our desire to see, own and fetishise them, which frames the way we interact with the world. But something more unsettling lingers behind these humorous, flippant gestures. As these hordes of antiquated, discarded items come back to life – or, alternately, as these animated things are reified as waste – they become a reminder of how much stuff we hold onto, and how we now have to deal with our own material legacies."

 

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