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This exhibition, which takes its title from the J.D. Salinger short story, Joffe looks at her relationship with daughter Esme, and many of the new pieces were painted during lockdown. Later this year, there will be an exhibition of paintings of the artist with her mother at Victoria Miro in London.
Thierry Bal. From pregnancy to birth, growing up to growing old, Chantal Joffe's intimate portraits capture the evolving stages of life and (mostly) female relationships. Many of the...
May 26, 2018 · Joffe has looked to Modersohn-Becker for years: ‘It’s the way she paints the connection between mother and child, the baby breastfeeding and looking back at its mother. I hope we share that directness.’
- Harriet Baker
Feb 24, 2017 · Untraceable, unidentifiable, we might wonder instead about this woman’s relationship with Joffe, imagining her as a sister, a niece, a friend. The work of the confessional poets, which takes human emotion, sincerity and vulnerability as its ultimate subject, frames Joffe’s practice.
Chantal Joffe’s highly personal self-portrait with her daughter, Esme, is set on the beach at St Leonard’s where the artist’s mother lives. Joffe worked from a photograph; she takes many photographs or asks others to, with the possibility of them becoming subjects for paintings.
Taking its name from J.D. Salinger’s short story For Esmé – with Love and Squalor (1950) in which time hangs as heavy as the protagonist’s ‘enormous-faced chronographic-looking wristwatch’, the exhibition captures the changing faces across the years of Chantal and her daughter Esme, moving between mother and daughter, love and ...
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Jun 22, 2021 · Joffe and her siblings are depicted without their mother in Kool-Aid (2020) and Halloween (2020) and other images. It is in images such as these that I could recall, or perhaps imagine, a little of what it felt like to be a child with other children.
