Anna Mikholap — Fade to Grief

By Lisa Knoll

31/3/2023

27 March – 19 April 2023
Atticus Gallery | Bath, UK

Address: 11a Queen Street, BA1 1HE, Bath, United Kingdom
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 – 19:00
Closed: Sunday

Image © Atticus Gallery

Atticus Gallery is honoured to present Fade to Grief, a solo exhibition that marks a pivotal evolution in the artist’s oeuvre. Known for her spectral, emotionally charged figuration, the artist here transitions towards a more corporeal and posthuman vocabulary—painting grief not as an object of reflection, but as a shared, somatic condition.

In these new works, dogs—some spectral, others reduced to their gestural essence—emerge as mourners, companions, and existential mirrors. They are not allegorical. They are witnesses, embedded within atmospheric fields of oil and pastel that resist closure or narrative cohesion. Rendered as porous figures dissolving into chromatic intensity and formal breakdown, their presence signals a dispersal of subjectivity—an embrace of grief as interspecies, relational, and unresolved.

One work frames a lone animal, yellowed and rust-haloed, in a field that evokes not ground, but memory slowly unfurling. Another eliminates the figure entirely, leaving only a stain of red and green—the residue of what cannot be held, only felt.

Fade to Grief departs from the melancholic restraint of the artist’s earlier exhibitions, entering instead a space of visceral elegy. These paintings are not didactic. They are phenomenological—unfolding over time, drawing the viewer into an experience that bypasses language and settles deep within the nervous system.

Situated within the curved architecture of Atticus Gallery, the exhibition becomes a space of ambient mourning, where grief is not portrayed but dispersed. It offers a sustained meditation on the erosion of form, containment, and the boundary between human and animal, gesture and affect.

This is the artist at her most unguarded, materially urgent, and conceptually precise.

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