Natalia González Martín: Table Manners @ Hannah Barry Gallery, London


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Another Frieze week highlight: Table Manners is the second solo exhibition by Natalia González Martín at Hannah Barry Gallery. Bringing together two new bodies of work – 18 oil on panel paintings and a series of miniature egg tempera illuminations – the exhibition showcases González Martín’s evocative signature blend of religious iconography with contemporary storytelling. Drawn from her readings of modern works in medieval social history, including Renaissance scholar Rudolph Bell’s Holy Anorexia (1985) and historian Caroline Bynum’s Holy Feast and Holy Fast (1987), the exhibition calls to attention the fraught intimacy between women, food and bodily autonomy, not only in female conventual life but in women’s quest for liberation through the ages. Juxtaposing classicism with her own fantastical charm,…

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