Lynette Yiadom Boakye’s Theatre of the Silent

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Lynette Yiadom Boakye’s Theatre of the Silent

Yiadom-Boakye’s new paintings at Corvi-Mora explore a dialectic between expression and enigma In a largescale oil painting, a man holds the skull of a magpie aloft, elbow cocked to bring the bone level with his eyeline. Below his feet, a row of semicircles in green and white decorate the frame like footlights. Behind, or perhaps upstage, another man limbers up, his arms flexed and pulled together by interlocked fingers. The backdrop is a wash of…