Wednesday wobbliness… During lockdown, the Irish painter Genieve Figgis turned her brush to creating Imaginary Friends, a series of works depicting “strange social scenes and gatherings that are difficult to place yet eerily resonant,” in the words of Oyinkansola Akande in an archive feature for Elephant. What ensued was a typically ghoulish array of social portraits, rendered in Figgis’s fluid style that lends her scenes the appearance of melting. They are funny, freaky and nostalgic all at once, testimony to what Akande terms Figgis’s “compelling force of imagination”. Read what the artist has to say about the series here.
