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Hannah Traore Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Anya Paintsil for 1-54 London. In this new series of tapestries, the Welsh-Ghanaian artist explores and expands on the role of the woman within the family—as carer, mother, unpaid laborer—and her existence as defined by her usefulness and by those that surround her. Building on previous work inspired by feelings of kinship with female characters from Welsh mythology and folktales, Paintsil threads figures that appear frozen with blank, empty expressions while disembodied hands creep around them, absorbing them into the …