Emily Steer is a London-based culture journalist and former editor of Elephant. She has written for titles including AnOther, BBC Culture, the Financial Times, and Frieze.
Anna Calleja fuses the intricacy of devotional paintings with the everyday trappings of contemporary life. In her new show at’s Sim Smith, the artist presents an autobiographical selection of works in which she and other characters inhabit comfortable domestic settings. These scenes are cut through with moments of loneliness and tension, as figures zone out in front of phone screens and curl up in foetal positions.
Influenced by artists such as Pierre Bonnard and Gwen John, Calleja often includes the family’s ginger cat, curled comfortingly on her figures’ laps or watching the action nearby. ‘There is this unifying, peaceful factor to everyone loving the pet cat or dog,’ she says. ‘He is also constrained in the house. He is a wild animal, but he’s domesticated. There is this subtle melancholia with pets.
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