Corvus, a painting installation by Matthew Krishanu in the newly-located Stuart Hall Library, Iniva’s unique specialist collection focusing on art and artists from Africa, Asia and the diaspora. Krishanu’s crows could be described as relatives of sorts, sharing similarities of pose and abstracted form, their portraits painted intimately in oil on canvas board. The artist has been documenting London crows for over seven years, drawing inspiration from poets such as Ted Hughes and Rabindranath Tagore. In the space of the Stuart Hall Library, systems of classification, taxonomy and assemblage come into focus. The crows emerge between shelves and loiter above doorways, populating the library with their delicate, comical and eerie presence.
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