For Liste 2025 Galerina is presenting anti-paintings by London based artist Sarah Staton. This body of work emerged in tandem to the 1990's first world escalation of globalized production that outsourced labour, to increase yields, while simultaneously vastly expanding American hegemony, with the world wide Americanization of culture, food and values, the 20th century legacy. In Anti-Paintings, instead of building on with colour, Staton removes dye with bleach, to create text as image. Staton embraces forms and materials that have been considered lesser both in art but also in industrialized production, often associated with textiles and different forms of feminized labor.
Sarah Staton is a visual artist who over 3 decades, has devised ways to play with the social potentials of art. Staton explores this interest through exhibitions and public commissions, working mainly across painting and sculpture. She is represented in a number of collections including Arts Council UK, British Museum Prints and Drawings, Henry Moore Institute, South London Gallery and Tate as well as in private collections across the world. Staton has recently served as the Head of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London.
Her durational shop-as-artwork SupaStore est 1993 curates contributions by other artists in pop-up displays at institutions worldwide. Most recently the SupaStore has popped up at Tinguely Museum, Basel (2024); A+A Gallery, Venice (2022); Cylinder Gallery, Seoul (2021); South London Gallery, (2021), Nida Art Colony, LT (2020).