Twilight Contemporary
Twilight Contemporary, London
Twilight Contemporary was founded as an independent gallery in late 2024 with the ambition of rethinking what a contemporary gallery can be.
From its inception, the gallery set out to challenge the traditional white-cube model by pairing a rigorous exhibition programme with a lively calendar of evening events, workshops, performances, screenings, and alternative art forms hosted by Twilight Lates.
Proposal
Twilight Contemporary presents a duo exhibition exploring world building as an act of resistance featuring the work of Kitty McKay and William Reinsch. McKay’s reimagined and manipulated urban re-constructions draw attention to the exclusionary structures embedded within public space. While Reinsch’s imagined rural landscapes form part of a wider world building exercise, allowing him to process and communicate experiences not easily put into words. Butted together, these urban and rural reimaginings stage a sinister cognitive dissonance between these two modes of world building. They ask the audience to re-evaluate normative perspectives on disability and mental health.
William Reinsch
Reinsch, born in 1994, is a London-based artist.
Naked Island is the name given to the world he has been building over many years, drawn from his internal psyche. A world that offers glimpses and fragments into a place normally kept hidden.
Reinsch began painting in this autobiographical mode after a tough period in his young life. Drawing and painting became a vehicle to communicate experiences he could not easily put into words, with early works given to his therapist as a means of understanding what he was experiencing. This approach has never left his practice, with each piece becoming a new act of exposure.
Materiality plays a critical role in his work. Reinsch frequently works on aluminium, allowing paint to slide and fracture across the surface, producing very gestural marks. The relative passivity of aluminium enables speed and instinct, whereas his canvas works introduce a sense of resistance.
Kitty McKay
McKay, a Glasgow-based artist and researcher, is eternally preoccupied with the ways in which public space is made and unmade. Working across installation, moving image, sculpture, sound, collage, and writing, their approach to practice is informed by feminist, queer, and crip frameworks for understanding, and overcoming, the ways power constructs place. Their installations seek to evoke the errant, dissonant, and unauthorised socialities and practices that happen in urban space through the dislocation of materials that comprise and enforce spatial hegemony.
