Jo Berry considers the Agar’s painting’s resemblance to an Ikea showroom. Berry noticed the uncanny positioning of similar objects in the display rooms. Ikea is “a symbol of capitalism, an omnipresent temple to overconsumption and environmental degradation”. Berry believes that Agar, who made use of “everyday objects and elements of chance and discovery to inform her dreamlike works”, would have relished a tour around the vast superstore. In Agar’s work, abstraction is employed to make the objects less distinct. Similarly, in Berry’s work, a net curtain covers the scene; a gauzy layer that blurs the objects set within this simulacrum of a room. For Berry, it is a space on the cusp of dream and reality.
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