Mamma Andersson, Cat Ice Image copyright the artist. Images courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.Mamma Andersson’s paintings have the eerie, druggy quality of a bad dream or a buried memory. In her current show, Gooseberry, the mood is dark, with lots of black and pale bone-coloured paint. A troubling confusion reigns.
In the dim room depicted in Cat Ice, even animal figurines look sinister. Is it night time or have the lights been lowered, the curtains drawn against curious eyes? Where and when are we in the pair...
