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The latest exhibition by young South African artist Isabelle Grobler is likely to provoke, intrigue, shock and delight, in equal measure. Known for her sculptural installations which metamorphose industrial found objects into fleshy organic forms; here Grobler focuses on two-dimensional works for the most part. In The Meatgrinder Madrigal, the artist spins a dense and complex web of narrative, allusion and dark humour to create a new mythos, making classical works from art history serve as her 鈥榝ound objects鈥�. Paintings, drawings and prints operate in a space that uniquely reflects this innovative and exciting artist鈥檚 inimitable imagination and quirky take on 鈥渢he life we live now鈥�, conveyed in the form of a magnificent and meandering creation epic. Reflecting and critiquing the banalities, complexities and eccentricities of suburbia, Grobler creates a larger-than-life tableau of creation, self-discovery and inevitable fall. Typical of her work, dark humour suffuses these works, jockeying with a real sense of revulsion for the trappings of contemporary consumerist society and the compromises required to appear as 鈥榥ormal鈥� in the modern world. The exhibition stands as a painterly sculptural installation: a story conveyed on canvas. In its defying of the strictures of its two-dimensional bounds, it is an exercise in organic growth (perhaps gone wild). The Meatgrinder Madrigal promises to give a heady insight into the way that contemporary painting is able to defy language and to present commentary without recourse to words. A performance by the artist on the opening night will activate the body of work and leave integral traces throughout the gallery space for the duration of the show.