PACITA ABAD: STITCHING SOLIDARITIES
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA, MADRID, SPAIN: OPENING 8 JULY 2027
The artist celebrating the Windrush generation
Ruby Tandoh, RA Magazine
September 2021
Royal Academy of Arts logo, Alison Jacques
Veronica Ryan was going to place the soursop in the churchyard, until her nerves set in. The sculpture – a 1.5-metre bronze in the spiked, comma shape of a tropical soursop fruit – would have been in good company among the locals who stroll and chat in the shade of the St John at Hackney gardens in east London. A short walk away, there would be a large, petalled custard apple in luminous Carrara marble, and a breadfruit, its honeycomb skin rendered in bronze. But something about the placement didn’t feel right. […]