Andrew Salgado – Glory

In this new exhibition, Andrew Salgado ventures from figurative painting to present a series devoted exclusively to abstracted florals.

At once funereal and joyous, these exuberant compositions occupy a space between celebration and mourning, joy and uncertainty. Bursting with colour and vitality, they embrace contradiction: frustration and release, restraint and abandon, beauty and decay. For the artist, the word “glory” is laden with possibility, at once promising and mildly unsettling; its etymology meaning majestic and light, but also heaviness, social weightiness.