February 21, 2023
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Frieze: Renée Stout Wields Illegibility as a Form of Resistance
Renée Stout’s exhibition, Navigating the Abyss, was reviewed in Frieze: Renée Stout Wields Illegibility as a Form of Resistance.
Daniel Felsenthal writes, “The fragmented phantasmagoria of ‘Navigating the Abyss’, Renée Stout’s show of recent work at Marc Straus gallery, mingles spirituality and political terror. The 65-year-old artist’s previous exhibitions employed a cast of fictional alter-egos to guide us through her singular world. While ‘Navigating the Abyss’ includes a colourful acrylic of longtime avatar Fatima Mayfield as part of a frank and moving series of portraits titled ‘Hoodoo Assassins and Agents’ (Hoodoo Assassin # 5 (The Lieutenant), 2019), Stout’s new body of work fosters logical gaps, knowing that both art and hope grow in the cavities of rational thought. The 33 pieces on display – spanning painting, drawing, sculpture and mixed media – are dense with hidden knowledge, enduring traditions and personal enigma…”
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