The Ashford Gallery in RHA, Dublin hosts a collection of weird and wonderful pieces by Vanessa Donoso Lopéz. Lopez has created a kind of fantastical living room with rich wallpaper decorating the space. Antique furniture is laden down with moving sculptures and found objects. Several teacups display dancing dolls while wax creatures sprout colourful growths from their heads and ticking butterflies are agitated by warped time. Apart from a poor assembly of paint tins and magnetic fish, which in my opinion the show could have done without, I found myself admiring Lopéz’ keen aesthetics and courageous execution.
Image: Vanessa Donoso Lopéz
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