How Kaari Upson turned her world upside down

Alice Godwin | Apollo | 11th June 2025

About to open in Germany, Upson’s retrospective celebrates a promising career cut short by early death. She came to prominence with her “Larry” series inspired by exploring the abandoned house of an unknown neighbour. It’s a commentary on masculinity but, more importantly, an example of how her art blurs boundaries. She blurs individual identities, but also the boundary between fact versus fiction, between what is public versus private. This retrospective “will surely not be her last.”.