Magdalene Odundo review – quietly devastating challenge in an English country house

Standing proudly in the center of a room of 18th- and 19th-century English portrait paintings in Houghton Hall is a polished terracotta vessel. Magdalene Odundo’s work amazes with its simplicity. While the former residents of the Palladian mansion depicted in the paintings stare haughtily down, Odundo’s Untitled (2024) – a self-portrait, but also a portrait … Read more