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Sabrina Amrani is delighted to present After the wake, the third solo show of Alexandra Karakashian at the gallery, as part of APERTURA Madrid Gallery Weekend.

For her third solo exhibition at the gallery, Alexandra Karakashian thinks through the notion of the wake to conjure new works that probe the uneasy overlapping of death and life.

The wake is a temporal pivot: a liminal moment in time when the deceased and the living linger. It is a moment to bear witness, to reflect, to be still. Yet in Karakashian’s universe, nothing is ever still, least of all in her highly charged ‘wrapped’ …