Workplace

We presented new work by Rachel Lancaster at Art Cologne Palma Mallorca.

Lancaster’s practice is focused on painting and its intersections with the languages of cinema, music and photography. Photographic stills from obscure ‘B-movies’ often from the 80s and 90s - the artists formative years - are selected, edited and then translated into oil paintings.

Lancaster’s paintings represent detailed fragments of a greater narrative. She is drawn to seemingly insignificant passing shots, extreme close ups of inanimate objects, common place domestic interiors; the split-second liminal moments that are in-between the action. Divorced physically from their position within a narrative structure, these paintings become temporally abstracted; ambiguous and open ended as to the unknown events which have preceded or may follow.

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Rachel Lancaster, ‘Within the reach of me’, 2026. Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK.

At Art Cologne Palma Mallorca we presented work by Ki Yoong.

Yoong’s paintings are marked by a quiet tenderness, underscored by his distinctive use of tightly cropped compositions upon found materials including copper, steel, acrylic, and glass. The removal of visual information opens space for projection, inviting the viewer to bring their own associations and memories into the process of looking. His works simultaneously explore portraiture and object making.

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Ki Yoong, ‘Now it’s gone’, 2026. Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK.