Gallery Primo Alonso is delighted to present backwash, Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom’s first solo show after graduating from the Royal Academy of Art. This show comes as a result of the Gallery’s first residency program allowing Boakye-Yiadom complete freedom to create his work within the gallery space for two months.

In Boakye-Yiadom’s work, the ready-made object is used to instigate a performance, where an irrepressible form or movement is enforced upon it. The uncontrollable act allows the object to exceed its parameters subsequent to the imposed action, gradually gaining pulse, momentum and life of its own; exploring the expansion of the past and present existing in the moment.  Each piece undergoes an individual transformation, existing within the moment of transition from object to sculpture and sculpture to installation and is also expressed through video.