Garnets

As much as they mine [sic.] the appearance of a kind of generic ordinariness, the longer you look at Yiadom-Boakyes paintings the odder and richer they become. The people in them are often detached from anything that could link them to an actual time, location or even, on occasion, gender; their clothes usually are as neutral as their settings, and so blandly functional it would seem they exist simply to protect the modesty of their imaginary wearers
(J. Higgie, A Life in a Day, in Frieze, 146, April 2012, p. 88).