this is tomorrow: Paul Hallahan & Lee Welch @ dlr Lexicon
At the back of the gallery, Welch draws visitors towards a monumental painting titled ‘and being swept along is not enough’ (2019). In this work we discover references to architecture and elements of art history that are continued in other paintings such as ‘like light and cloud-shadows’ (2019) - an homage to Gabriele Münter’s ‘Girl with a Red Ribbon’ (1908). Welch pushes and pulls the viewer in different directions, but is careful to never force them down any predetermined rabbit holes. –Aidan Kelly Murphy