Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian, From March to April... 2020
(Picture: Courtesy of the artists and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai)This new Whitechapel Gallery exhibition, A Century of the Artist’s Studio, could just as easily be called A Century of the Artist. While it is absolutely a show about artists’ working spaces - the forms they take, and the ways in which they’ve changed as art has radically shifted over the past century - it is also, of course, an exhibition about people.
We like to peek behind the curtain into an artist’s world, spy on their activities. Ultimately, that’s what we witness here: different behaviours in distinctive contexts and habitats, a range of strategies for recording and expressing human experience. Sometimes we’re meant to see it, at others we glimpse something the artist had kept hidden.
