ROB PRUITT – B&W NARCISSUS

Posted on 2023-04-17

The exhibition begins with Food Sloshing in Baby’s Mouth / Sunlight Through Window (2022), where a baby is being fed breakfast as rays of sunshine beam through the window and onto the scene. A myriad of sensory experiences are highlighted: the warmth of the morning sun, the food and flavours being energetically consumed, the hands of the mother or caretaker as they gently yet firmly support the rapidly growing body. This illustrates the beginning, where an equation begins to be assembled–what it means to be alive. In attending to what Josephs considers the ‘dream of reality’, our experience of the world becomes a dream and a seductive illusion. Therein, the human subject experiences something akin to an education on how our modes of interpretation can materialise within this new sphere of consciousness.

Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2023

MASSIMODECARLO
Pièce Unique
57 Rue de Turenne
75003 Paris

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

HALEY JOSEPHS – EVERY PART OF THE DREAM

Posted on 2022-11-21

The exhibition begins with Food Sloshing in Baby’s Mouth / Sunlight Through Window (2022), where a baby is being fed breakfast as rays of sunshine beam through the window and onto the scene. A myriad of sensory experiences are highlighted: the warmth of the morning sun, the food and flavours being energetically consumed, the hands of the mother or caretaker as they gently yet firmly support the rapidly growing body. This illustrates the beginning, where an equation begins to be assembled–what it means to be alive. In attending to what Josephs considers the ‘dream of reality’, our experience of the world becomes a dream and a seductive illusion. Therein, the human subject experiences something akin to an education on how our modes of interpretation can materialise within this new sphere of consciousness.

Opposite – Golden Valley, 2022

Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2022

Almine Rech
Grosvenor Hill, Broadbent House
W1K 3JH
London

www.alminerech.com

  

TONY SWAIN – SIGHT DESERTED

Posted on 2022-11-21

Swain alters, merges, and obscures printed pictures with painted ones, using this material support as a space to reconfigure and overpaint the original information. His paintings conjure phantastic images and representations via repetition, the layering paint over the printed page, and the sewing together of newspaper parts to create utopian panoramas.
Swain’s collection of primary material is categorized in his studio, and consciously logged to be used in future works. His tearing techniques have been perfected to achieve a certain finish in the configuration of images, clean smooth edges for curvatures and jagged rips for mountain ranges. Three new panel works are installed alongside the works on paper, along with a historic panel work from 1990, spanning the development of Swain’s technique and working style.

Opposite – Clouded Room, 2022

Exhibition runs through to January 14th, 2023

The Modern Institute
14-20 Osborne Street
G1 5QN Glasgow
Scotland

www.themoderninstitute.com

  

EMILY LUDWIG SHAFFER – IN STEAD OF ME

Posted on 2022-11-21

To act in someone’s stead is to hold or stand in their place. It is a phrase tied to both absence and locality. The title In Stead of Me speaks to the dualities and contradictions in Shaffer’s works. The artist gestures to intimated but non-present figures through various motifs in her work: the empty chairs in Flowers to Share (2022), the child in the mother’s womb in City of Lady (2022), and the shadow figure in Nurse Log (2022). The title also alludes to how paintings can stand in for the artist’s state of being. Shaffer describes this exhibition – which is her first solo since becoming a mother – as having come together in an intuitive and organic way. These are a series of loose vignettes and spaces that have inspired or grounded her in a year of constant change.

Opposite – Nurse Log, 2022

Exhibition runs through to January 6th, 2023

Peres Projects
Karl-Marx-Allee 82
10243 Berlin
Germany

peresprojects.com

  

RAGNAR KJARTANSSON

Posted on 2022-11-14

No Tomorrow is a new video installation by Kjartansson, choreographer Margrét Bjarnadóttir, and composer Bryce Dessner. Spanning six screens that encircle the room, the installation surrounds viewers with a performance of spatial music written for eight dancers with eight guitars. Recorded from the center of the performers’ space, the installation is kaleidoscopic, capturing the dancers as they weave within each screen and across the channels; their movements and melodies ranging from pastorale to rock and roll. Combining a variety of classic Western references – blue jeans and white t-shirts, the draped silk curtains of mid-20th century song and dance films, as well as lyrics drawn from the Archaic Greek poet Sappho and adventurer Vivant Denon, two sensualists millennia apart – the work spins notions of idealization and iconography. It is also a reflection on our ideals of beauty, our search for it, and the absurdity of its representations, inspired by the frivolity and reality of Rococo paintings, classical ballet, and modern pop music videos. The performance was initially commissioned for the Iceland Dance Company in 2017, and the new video work features the original cast of performers, all of whom were integral to the development of the work.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2022

Luhring Augustine Chelsea
531 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.luhringaugustine.com

  

INI ARCHIBONG – NARTHEX

Posted on 2022-11-14

No Tomorrow is a new video installation by Kjartansson, choreographer Margrét Bjarnadóttir, and composer Bryce Dessner. Spanning six screens that encircle the room, the installation surrounds viewers with a performance of spatial music written for eight dancers with eight guitars. Recorded from the center of the performers’ space, the installation is kaleidoscopic, capturing the dancers as they weave within each screen and across the channels; their movements and melodies ranging from pastorale to rock and roll. Combining a variety of classic Western references – blue jeans and white t-shirts, the draped silk curtains of mid-20th century song and dance films, as well as lyrics drawn from the Archaic Greek poet Sappho and adventurer Vivant Denon, two sensualists millennia apart – the work spins notions of idealization and iconography. It is also a reflection on our ideals of beauty, our search for it, and the absurdity of its representations, inspired by the frivolity and reality of Rococo paintings, classical ballet, and modern pop music videos. The performance was initially commissioned for the Iceland Dance Company in 2017, and the new video work features the original cast of performers, all of whom were integral to the development of the work.

Opposite – Stargazer, 2022

Exhibition runs through to December 16th, 2022

Friedman Benda
515 West 26th Street
NY 10001
New York

www.friedmanbenda.com