MARIA BARNAS – WE ARE TURNING CORNERS

Posted on 2018-04-30

Visual artist, poet and writer Maria Barnas focuses her work on the power of language in shaping reality. Her long-term research on whether words can be trusted as carriers of anything solid, converges in Sputter Fiction: presented first at the Nationaal Glasmuseum in Leerdam, the group of glass objects now on show in The Bakery further investigates the capacity of words to create new images. Does language consist of images? Can you pronounce a shape? Barnas builds narratives and alternative histories around history-as-we-know-it and what is presented as factual. An image, like a text, is not a closed container. It rarely depicts or describes what it sets out to. She works against the notion that language should have a specific form, aware of the fact that our grasp of reality is closely linked to the words we (don’t) choose to describe. Her work delves into the power structures that language exudes on a day-to-day, art-historical and political level. Moreover, her work sits at the heart of poetry’s ability to both heighten and obscure our notion of reality.

Opposite – Sputter Fiction, 2018

Exhibition runs through to June 16th, 2018

Annet Gelink Gallery
Laurierstraat 187-189
NL-1016PL Amsterdam
Netherlands

www.annetgelink.com

  

PHOEBE UNWIN – PREGNANT LANDSCAPE

Posted on 2018-04-30

The title of Phoebe Unwin’s next show Pregnant Landscape simultaneously invokes the traditions of portraiture and landscape painting. It also imbues the idea of a landscape with a sense of the bodily, as pregnancy suggests gestation and fecundity. Unwin does not work from pre-existing images or photographs, and the frenetic circulation of visual materials in 2.0 culture has no direct impact on her practice. Instead she makes paintings. In this case, a series of oil paintings that, as objects in themselves, conjure an image somewhere between the surface of the painting and the viewer’s observation of it. She describes her way of working as a kind of abstraction in reverse; rather than a drawing away from the observed world and a distillation of its actuality, it is more a case of ‘the abstract triggering the figurative.’ Yet it is not so much a tension between the ideas of abstraction and figuration, or a revision of the modernist prioritisation of form, but the objectification of the painting as a ‘thing-in-itself’ that can surprise, seduce and connect with the individual viewer to create novel content and unique meaning.

Opposite – Whisper, 2018

Exhibition runs through to May 26th, 2018

AMANDA WILKINSON
1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street
W1F 0SH
London

amandawilkinsongallery.com

  

HEATHER COOK – 1D 5L 2D 6L 3D 7L 4D 8L 5D 1L 6D 2L 7D

Posted on 2018-04-30

The show consists of two interrelated series of woven works, each following Cook’s continued investigation of the process of the construction of an image. In the first two rooms there is a series of works known as Shadow Weaves, and in the last room, Weaving Drafts, works that depict the graphic representations of the weaving programs for the Shadow Weaves themselves.
The title of the show 1D 5L 2D 6L 3D 7L 4D 8L 5D 1L 6D 2L 7D 3L 8D 4L, is a technical set of directions for footpedal strokes on a jack loom used to make the series of works in the show known as Shadow Weaves. Cook has been investigating this traditional pattern since 2012. The name shadow weave has a double meaning in its historic usage: First, the word shadow is used to reflect a narrative account of the temporal aspect of the process, one thing after another, as the dark thread literally follows the lighter thread through the loom in the sequence of the pattern. Second, that the effect of the final result is a visual likeness of raised and recessed planes. So the singular name long used for a very traditional pattern has already within it a common space where the act of making the object and its optical effect come together as the same.

Opposite – Fluorescent Orange and Navy Blue Shadow Weaving Draft, 2018

Exhibition runs through to June 16th, 2018

Praz-Delavallade
6150 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90048 Los Angeles
USA

www.praz-delavallade.com

  

NICCE WOMEN’S PRE-FALL 18 COLLECTION

Posted on 2018-04-30

Nicce transitions into a more confident and playful direction with it’s Pre-fall 18 collection, that seeks to empower the
wearer through a strong yet feminine aesthetic. Heralding a fusion of streetwear and ath-leisure, the collection follows a sporty
narrative, building on the success of Nicce’s flair for cut & sewn detailing and block colour, to create a curated collection of mix and
match pieces that fit into any wardrobe.
Multi panelled body con pieces sit alongside oversized elements, including batwing and over proportioned design details that offset
the more streamlined pieces. The seasonal colour palette includes golden yellows and fresh Majorca blue that conjure images of
long European summer nights, interjected with a contrasting panelled onyx black and optic white.
This season sees the introduction of the ’N’ logo and chevron, updating the existing branding with a more sport dynamic, whilst still
being unmistakably Nicce.

www.nicceclothing.com

  

VOLUME FOUR, ISSUE SIX

Posted on 2018-04-26

Photography & Art content Roger Ballen, William Eggleston, Andreas Gursky, Jocelyn Lee, David Lynch, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore

Photography & Fashion content Max Cornall, Amar David, Nadine Fraczkowski, Hedvig Jenning, Daniel Levitt, Dan Regan, Marco Van Rijt, Alexander Saladrigas, Clare Shilland.

Available at exitmagazineshop.bigcartel.com

  

THE CURED

Posted on 2018-04-23

What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins. Among the formerly afflicted is Senan (Sam Keeley), a young man haunted by the horrific acts he committed while infected. Welcomed back into the family of his widowed sister-in-law (Ellen Page), Senan attempts to restart his life—but is society ready to forgive him and those like him? Starring, Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor & Paula Malcomson

In theatres May 11th, 2018

www.ifcfilms.com