‘Nothing Bad’: Michaela Younge at Smith Studio

Written for Smith Studio on the occasion of Michaela Younge’s first solo show, May 2019.

“Cupid is wearing a thong, a cat is playing the trumpet, and a naked man is lying in the cold cuts counter. Someone is braaing in the art museum, and someone has lost an arm. There are adverts for Carling Black Label and Maserati, a DVD rental store, a peep show. And everywhere animals. Michaela Younge’s felted compositions appear as scenes from obscure fables; not The Tortoise and the Hare but rather Used Cars and Lobsters. She weaves together popular culture, urban legends, myths and stories into rich narrative scenes. They are at once playful and violent, dark despite their colours. Her work appeals to dream logic, which is no logic, set in places at once familiar and strange.”

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