Ian Kiaer’s oblique shift of the white cube gallery
Will Jennings, recessed.space
April 2023

When Ian Kiaer turned up to Alison Jacques gallery two weeks before his exhibition Endnote, oblique opened, he had in his mind a rough model of what the final hang may look like, but not a fixed decision.
He brought a lot more work than was needed, indeed more than would fill the two neat but not gargantuan Fitzrovia rooms. He then set out to build the exhibition, requiring a certain embodiment of the space, reading the presence, and a strict editor’s eye. […]