CAMERON JAMIE

In his latest exhibition, Jamie is exhibiting his new series of ceramic works which he has expanded and merged into his own personal language as an extension of his graphic and sculptural disciplines. With his video works, photographs, performances, sculptures and drawings, Jamie has been a major figure on the international arts scene for the last thirty years. His practice, enriched by appropriations and collaborations, has often been compared to anthropology, and continues to stretch the notion of identity, highlighting the resurgences of myth and fantasy in everyday life and popular culture. His investigations into ritualistic practice in marginal or underground cultures deconstruct the overarching processes of normalization. His most recent work, however, forces us to rethink his role as the amateur documenter of backyard and urban culture that he has been assigned.

Opposite – Untitled, 2018

Exhibition runs through to May 26th, 2018

Kamel Mennour
47, rue Saint-André des arts
75006 Paris
France

www.kamelmennour.com

SOUFIANE ABABRI – HAUNTED LIVES

Ababri was born in Tangiers, a city famous for its verbal jousting which was observed by many a wandering author and immortalised in the works of Ginsberg, Burroughs and Kessel. He brings to bear on Tangiers what Genet called his “magnifying judgements”, in this case an outlook that transforms the reality of East and West and which is asserted in Ababri’s aesthetic and literary choices.
It is easy to imagine the artist giving into the pleasure of simply wandering, catching unposed, candid photos (in moments of Genet-like complicity) of fleeting fragments of desire to inspire his drawings; sketches that portray his favourite themes that are seemingly thrown in the observer’s face without regret. Right from the start, it’s all about virility, but a different kind of virility, an abrupt analysis that goes from dialectic to tragic thoughts. “I think a lot about the role violence has played in the history of forms and the mechanisms of domination and how I can produce work that negates them”, Ababri explains.

Opposite – Bed work, 2017-2018

Exhibition runs through to June 16th, 2018

Praz-Delavallade
5 rue des Haudriettes
75003 Paris

www.praz-delavallade.com

KERLIN GALLERY GROUP SHOW

Kerlin Gallery is honoured to present new work by Dorothy Cross, Aleana Egan, Siobhán Hapaska, Isabel Nolan and Kathy Prendergast.
This intergenerational exhibition presents five Irish contemporary artists who, operating at different stages in their careers, have each developed a distinct and innovative approach to sculpture that has won international recognition from museums, biennales and contemporary art publications. Each artist will present new or recent work for this exhibition, fixing artworks to the floors, walls and ceilings of the space.
The tips of fingers and mountains alike hover between heaven and earth in sculptures by Dorothy Cross: bronze digits are suspended with steel wire; the peaks of Everest emerge from white marble slabs. Aleana Egan’s looping, signature wall works are cast in the chalky patina of untreated bronze; their wobbly edges find counterpoint in a linear steel sculpture by Isabel Nolan, suspended from the ceiling to plot geometric arches across the airy interior of the gallery. A glossy fibreglass apple looks set to burst, squeezed between snakeskin girders in a new work by Siobhán Hapaska, while Kathy Prendergast’s sombre black architectural construction resembles a garden shed, built to the approximate dimensions of a human figure.

Exhibition runs through to June 21st, 2018

Kerlin Gallery
Anne’s Lane
South Anne Street
Dublin 2 Dublin
Ireland

www.kerlingallery.com