White Cube Bermondsey presents ‘Amongst the Living’, an exhibition of works by Michael Armitage and Seyni Awa Camara staged to coincide with Frieze London. The exhibition is running until 30th October.

Following Armitage’s recent show at Kunsthalle Basel, ‘You, Who Are Still Alive’, this exhibition features recent paintings and works on paper produced during the past three years in London and Nairobi. It’s a spectacular show which also follows the recent Royal Academy of Arts, London show.

Having admired the work of Senegalese artist Seyni Awa Camara over many years Armitage has included a group of her terracotta sculptures in this, the first major presentation of Camara’s work in the UK.

As Elena Filipovic has written, Armitage’s paintings describe the contradictions of a post-colonial modernity where matters of life and death are always present. This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the painting You, Who Are Still Alive (2022) in which a supine figure is caught between states of existence, a mask-like apparition hovering just above his face; a spectral focus within a sparse composition.