KIM DACRES – BLACK MOVES FIRST

Posted on 2021-12-06

In the traditional game of chess, Black moves second, not first. Marked by a strategic disadvantage from the onset, Black involuntarily falls into responsive and defensive play. This extended metaphor becomes inverted with Dacres’ exhibition, Black Moves First, which unveils a powerful composition of eight new sculptures that proffer a novel twist on the timeless game of chess, which, in this version, is devoid of kings, pawns, or male signifiers. Instead, the eight women of the Crown family move first with white, the viewer, to respond.

Opposite – Black Moves First, 2021

Exhibition runs through to January 2nd, 2022

GAVLAK
340 Royal Poinciana Way, Suite M334
FL 33480
Palm Beach

www.gavlakgallery.com

  

ANNETTE KELM – BLOOM

Posted on 2021-12-06

Because of their scent, their beauty, their healing power, and even as food, plants have always had a firm place in humanity’s symbolic world. Annette Kelm’s four new large-scale photographs are also charged with this cultural-historical significance. However, the Berlin artist seems neither to enforce nor to negate the symbolic power of the plant world in her art. Instead, her approach to flora is characterized by care, an interest in aesthetics, and staging as well as a sober view on the plant. Vegetation is one of the recurring motifs in Kelm’s work. In combination with technical elements such as mechanical springs, the connection between art and technology is thematized in a subtle way. This nexus is particularly potent in photography, which is driven by technical innovation.

Opposite – Laceleave (Shadow), 2021

Exhibition runs through to February 13th, 2022

KÖNIG GALERIE
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

ANNE KORNFELD

Posted on 2021-12-06

Photographer Anne Kornfeld presents a new body of work tracing the journey across two continents and three states as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold of our collective social consciousness. Kornfeld documented her odyssey as she was forced back to the United States from India to self-isolation, eventually returning with caution to her home in New York only to leave again to New Mexico to avoid a second wave. The artist presents psychologically palpable imagery as she explores a new landscape of adaptation in various settings in the US as well as self-portraits that deal with the psychological experience of being in lockdown.

Opposite – COVIDTORIANA

Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2022

Aurelia Gallery
414 Canyon Road
Santa Fe
NM 87501

www.norton.org

  

SARAH DAVACHI AND SEAN MCCANN – MOTHER OF PEARL

Posted on 2021-12-06

Mother of Pearl is the first duo album from composers Sarah Davachi and Sean McCann. Two people, a couple, recording together at home. A slow, autumnal album made with no preconceptions or planning. Intimate, intended for ourselves.

Sessions were captured simultaneously in two ways to build the shared space of perception. Sculpted hesitations made late at night. Short statements of melody are left space to rest and repose. The presence of room tone and the air are characters in all of these recordings – weaving freely within the music.

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