Slinakachu at Andipa Gallery, London

Slinakachu, the artist who has been ‘abandoning’ his miniature people on the streets of cities around the world since 2006, is exhibiting a new body of work at Andipa Gallery. Entitled Miniaturesque, the exhibition features seventeen new images on paper and aluminium as well as new sculptural pieces, one of which is the artist’s biggest yet featuring over 200 miniature figures in a recreation of The River Thames.

Slinkachu’s new works draw upon our desire to seek out and recreate the natural world amongst the urban metropolis. They explore the hidden enclaves of the wild within our city, capturing idyllic glades and green pastures, in reality weeds and moss that appear through cracks in the concrete, and comment on our modern society’s detachment from nature.

Using tropes from art and popular culture, Slinkachu’s new work employ irony, humour and a healthy dose of reality; despite their fantastical situations, the miniature figures we observe are not so dissimilar to ourselves, living in the shadows between the real and artificial.

Slinakachu at Andipa Gallery, from 13 March to 18 April 2015