Andrew Reed Gallery is excited to announce Lotos-Eaters, a solo exhibition of new works by London-based artist Aaron Ford. The show opens Friday, September 5th with an opening reception from 6-8pm and will be on view through October 11th. 

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In the exhibition Lotos-Eaters, Ford explores the phenomenon of the migration of images, responding to a passage from Homer’s “The Odyssey”. In the poem, Odysseus alights on a mysterious island known as the Land of the Lotus Eaters, which both ancient and contemporary historians identify as Djerba, a small island off the coast of southern Tunisia, a location central to Ford’s research over the last several years.

In this exhibition, the artist will present a suite of paintings responding to his own photographs of the region and the German expressionist painter Gabriele Münter’s photo archive from her and Wassily Kandinsky’s trip to Tunis (1904-1905), examining the physical and emotional limitations of painting’s ability to respond to both location and history.