Dani McKenzie Night Memories

In 2017, Dani McKenzie’s work was imbued with a strange nostalgic melancholy. She was undertaking a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and her paintings, which were based on found photography, were infused with mystery as neither the artist or viewer could know the history or the context of the images. They were depicted with a slightly out-of-focus fuzziness, memories becoming lost in a fog of time past.

In 2022, the melancholy remains, but the memories are, 2022, an average innercity suburban house, lit by streetlamps, seems to be potentially engulfed by Stygian darkness. Perhaps, you can’t help but think, it would be a lot safer inside.