LAST CHANCE Adel El Siwi: Yellow Tropics

El Siwi’s first solo exhibition in over a decade features both new paintings and pieces from an archive of earlier works: “the paintings shown here collectively present philosophical provocations and musings” says the gallery. The title references Upper Egypt and the origin of man, but also Egypt’s literal reach towards its African neighbours, hinting at a desire to reclaim an element of identity as part of the Continent: “it is not simply Egypt’s Islamic and Mediterranean history and culture that inform his country’s identity, but according to El Siwi, a longer and earlier one … A conjuring of a shared Continental history of Africa, and a desired alignment by the artist artistically and emotionally with a greater story of identity and history, has resulted in an oeuvre unlike many artists of his generation”.