Angela Santana's Female Forms Return to Saatchi Yates
Large-scale paintings that challenge tradition and the gaze that defines it.
Swiss contemporary artist Angela Santana is making a return to Saatchi Yates in London with a new solo exhibition. In a showcase of large-scale oil paintings, Santana redefines historical representations of the female form, recasting the body into a site of becoming.
Exploring themes of identity and transformation, the show examines how the body is represented in the digital age. In an era shaped by an ecosystem of images, Santana envisions a call to change: to reconfigure the classical form into ethereal abstractions, looking to the chaos of the internet as a guiding light rather than a hindrance.
“I learned to paint the image of the female form from an early age, not in the image I imagined to be my own, but in the image of others before me,” Santana told Hypebae in an interview following her first show at the gallery. “The idea was to erase the memory of the past and create a new celebrated image from it.”
The exhibition is now on view in London through February 22, 2025. You can read more about the show on Hypebae’s site.
Saatchi Yates
14 Bury St,
London SW1Y 6AL,
UK
