An Unraveling is at the Heart of Ania Hobson’s “Hotel”

When you make cinematic paintings, like Ania Hobson does, there is a bit of a mystery as to what each character might be doing off the canvas. Hobson has always given a type of expressive characteristic to her characters; they are pondering something intensely, perhaps not always wanting to be in the moment and drifting off to a memory or something that is overwhelming them in their life. Often, she paints woman at bars, or walking away from a scene after a long night out, or in a cafe in conversation or often in cars. Everyone is moving. Maybe not physically moving, but their mind has taken them somewhere that is not where the viewer sees them. And hence why…