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“My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three,” Nabokov writes in Lolita (1955). To Georgia-May Travers Cook, “picnic, lightning” is a perfect economy of words, the title and conceptual anchor of her first London solo show. The violence of a life compressed into a clause, beauty and catastrophe made indistinguishable. Two words woven together into something that does not make logical sense and yet rings true. It was this aphoristic quality that the artist returned to while creating the works for Picnic Lightning, and its particular resonance with the novel-turned-film Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Picnic at Hanging Rock, a favourite of Travers Cook and the story from which Picnic Lightning draws inspiration, follows three schoolgirls and a teacher who vanish, without explanation, while exploring the ancient geological site of Hanging Rock. Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel and Peter Weir’s 1975 film leave their disappearance forever unresolved; one of the…

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“My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three,” Nabokov writes in Lolita (1955). To Georgia-May Travers Cook, “picnic, lightning” is a perfect economy of words, the title and conceptual anchor of her first London solo show. The violence of a life compressed into a clause, beauty and catastrophe made indistinguishable. Two words woven together into something that does not make logical sense and yet rings true. It was this aphoristic quality that the artist returned to while creating the works for Picnic Lightning, and its particular resonance with the novel-turned-film Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Picnic at Hanging Rock, a favourite of Travers Cook and the story from which Picnic Lightning draws inspiration, follows three schoolgirls and a teacher who vanish, without explanation, while exploring the ancient geological site of Hanging Rock. Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel and Peter Weir’s 1975 film leave their disappearance forever unresolved; one of the…

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