Juxtapoz Journal – Closing Days to See Hannah Wilson’s “Poor Sap” @ Bim Bim Gallery, Paris

We’re large followers of the works of Hannah Wilson, the Glaswegian painter we had in A Portfolio this yr. One of many causes was her present at Bim Bim in Paris we knew was developing in the summertime, and now there’s a few extra days to see these unbelievable work of snippets of on a regular basis life, like zooming into intimate moments that aren’t your individual however a stranger strolling by. 

With this sequence of work, Hannah Wilson expresses her private interpretation of masculinity as seen by cinema, which she makes use of to outline her personal identification: “The place to begin for this exhibition was the movie Raging Bull, by Martin Scorsese. Its central character, Jake LaMotta, is brutal, violent and pushed by his base instincts. Nevertheless, he lacks the emotional maturity to take care of the implications of his actions. It is an countless cycle: do evil then search penance, however by no means change. It is one thing that stayed with me and I knew I wished to make it the theme of my exhibition.”