Carolina Aguirre: It murmurs | Palmer Gallery
Carolina Aguirre, born in Chile and working in London, is said, by the notes accompanying her new exhibition, to create “mythopoetic landscapes”. And, this time around at Palmer Gallery, a new space just north of the Westway, we are to experience a “minerealised environment”.
In practice this means some tree trunk-like forms in mixed media. These are inspired by “nursing logs”: dead collapsed tree trunks that, prone, support new growth and life. I wasn’t overwhelmed by this - I could detect minerals, but not much myth or poetry - but then my eye was drawn to an partially open side door…
‘Family Portrait’ (2026)
Through the door, ‘Family Portrait’, an ink-on-board work, with patterns suggesting rock formations - minerals, again - or maybe fractured bones. It’s staged on a chest-height platform in this narrow side room, dramatically uplit.
In other words, it was lit and displayed like a triptych in a side chapel in a church. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it poetic, but I enjoyed it as a pagan devotional object,
Carolina Aguirre: It murmurs is at Palmer Gallery (London). 02 May - 13 June 2026