Charlotte Keates British, b. 1990

Charlotte Keates’s tranquil residential scenes feature familiar tropes of mid-century modern art and architecture, but her use of surrealist perspectives provokes an unsettling feeling of disorientation. She creates an almost dreamlike sense of déjà vu with atmospheric tableaux that stem from both memory and imagination. Lacking any human figures, Keates’s paintings encourage the viewer to place themselves in the environments she depicts, as if entering a stranger’s empty home, unsure if and when they might return.