exhibition review
Exhibition Review - 'Zhongguo 2185' at Sadie Coles, London till 04 November 2017.
“Victor Wang traces flat shadows
in fuzzboxes
in contemporary China
and finds a word in a foreign tongue."- Drenched Co.
Notes: "Imagine that you are a brain in a jar. You won't have too many stories of your own. Most would be someone else's, each sewn tightly into a perfect impression of you. You won't know exhaustion just as you can't imagine soaring free or dying. You have no sense of time, not the time measured through disintegrating bodies, as much as you can't fathom the breaking down of lives and their deep neurologies. You can't know love, the touch of another human and the stories of people and their societies and the anxieties that spring from this reservoir. Technology assaults you and fiddle with your personality. Your temporal lobes hum to the beat and play to the shape of narratives that don't see you, has never seen you. There's always a piece missing. And this is where Zhongguo 2185 hangs. It draws attention to you. Its not just Sinofiction." - FaSa
See http://www.sadiecoles.com/other-exhibitions/zhongguo-2185
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/10/exhibition-review-zhongguo-2185-at.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view 'Zhongguo 2185' Sadie Coles, London 2017.
Copyright the artists, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London. Curated by Victor Wang 王宗孚 Photography: Robert Glowacki
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.
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Exhibition Review - Jeff Elrod at Simon Lee Gallery, London till 21st October 2017.
“With Sparagmos and Synecdoche, Elrod offers up a wreckage in a mediated glow, found off kilter."- Drenched Co.
Notes: "I loved Blade Runner 2049. Did you? Watch it and then go take a spin at Simon Lee's Jeff Elrod exhibition. You'll sense the buzz, the glow and simulated warmth of 'computer monitors' and you'll feel like you have been shoved sideways into time. You will struggle with the illusory space of his increasingly opaque mediated 'screens'and you might draw the parallels between the movie and his paintings. Elrod uses ideas behind Science Fiction to make new thinking possible and communicable and his is more than a complex Instagram filter. Fabulous! " - FaSa
See https://www.simonleegallery.com/exhibitions/119/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/10/exhibition-review-jeff-elrod-at-simon.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Jeff Elrod Simon Lee Gallery, London 2017.
Image courtesy of artist and Simon Lee Gallery, London Photo credits: Todd-White Art Photography
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.
#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #JeffElrod #SimonLeeGallery #SimonLeeLondon #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #exhibitionreview #artreview #reviewart #marfa #sparagmos #synecdoche #sciencefiction #dreamspace #technology #briangysin #williamsburroughs #selfhynotising #screen #literal #figurative #fragments #tropes
Exhibition Review - Dusadee Huntrakul:'To Dance Is To Be Everywhere' Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore till 8th October 2017.
“A turn of the line, like an asymptote, may approach an indent in time."- Drenched Co.
Notes: "Consider the Neck. A narrow connector whose shape and surface may evoke a season, a landscape or an architectural detail. Think of the Neck, pale, scented, a recipient of a thousand kisses or a long slender snake that may suddenly slither up a wall dragging the whole body. Think of its gestural throwing lines, its dynamic volumes and the way its lies about the backbone. Think of the Neck when looking at Dusadee Huntrakul's art and his interest in meanings transfered through objects, gestures and forms. In this exhibition, the Neck is the creamy beacon that invites contemplation through the ages, an albatross full of metaphors slung around it, clinging on to an unwritten head and a trace of meaningness. Dusadee once made a film titled 'My Armpit's my Beer', but I am convinced he is a neck man. Fabulous " - Raj
See https://www.chanhori.com/2017-current#/to-dance-is-to-be-everywhere/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/09/exhibition-review-dusadee-huntrakulto.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Dusadee Huntrakul Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore 2017.
Image courtesy of artist and Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.
#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #DusadeeHuntrakul #ChanHoriContemporary #ChanHoriContemporarygallery #ToDanceIsToBeEverywhere #artinsingapore #artsingapore #singaporeanart #artinthailand #thaiart #artthai #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #neck #exhibitionreview #artreview #reviewart #ceramics #drawings #artifacts #Picasso #JoanMiro #MarkManders #asymptote #coleridge #collectivememory #myth #armpit #throwlines #gesture #form #object
Exhibition Review - Anne Samat:'SULTANATE IN THE EYE MONARCHY AT HEART' Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur till 21st August 2017.
“Samat's weaves transcend the world of cloth."- Drenched Co.
Notes: "Anne Samat weaves magical textiles. A patch of her traditional Malaysian 'songket' is the pulsating centre of a large exoskeleton of rakes and chains, and it is sending out thick feelers of thread, like taut twitching muscles, to reign in, to 'hook' into the gallery's whitewashed skin. Samat's works are alive, migrating, melding and becoming. And this is where lies the secret to their charisma - the vertiginous swoop you experience going from the mundane to the celestial. Her songkets are no longer just fit for kings. They are adorned by gods. " - FaSa
See http://rkfineart.com/exhibition/anne-samat-sultanate-in-the-eye-monarchy-at-heart/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/08/exhibition-review-anne-samatsultanate.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Anne Samat Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur 2017.
Image courtesy of artist and Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.
#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #AnneSamat #RichardKohFineArt #RichardKohFineArtgallery #SULTANATEINTHEEYEMONARCHYATHEART #artinmalaysia #artmalaysia #malaysianart #artsingapore #singaporeart #artinsingapore #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #songket #weaving #traditionaldress #domesticobjects #Richardkoh #goddess
Exhibition Review - Anne Neukamp:'The Familiar Object' Marlborough Contemporary, New York till 24th June 2017.
“Take off your Anschauung for a second,
i need to unlock you
a fading charm for our craven misgivings."- Drenched Co.
Notes: "Sometimes, I am in my day and an image appears in my mind. Is that the same for you too? It is usually just a shape I have seen. Floating. Untethered. No emotions. No immediate relevance to what I am doing or thinking. I might be cleaning my brushes or stepping into the shower and there it is. A recent one was the odd reflection off a spoon sitting in a bowl of half-eaten cereal my daughter had abandoned rushing to get out of the door to school. There was no bowl, no table, no daughter, just a spoon and the odd way it caught the light. Why that spoon? No idea. Occasionally the image will come nested in other things or half of some things that interfere with it. Odd milieu of colors and light and objects that says nothing and signify little. I sometime wonder if this odd imagery will be the last thing I see. A flash of impending uselessness of things catching my last breath. I wonder if Neukamp hasn't somehow found a way to capture it." - Raj
Caption: Image above: Installation view Anne Neukamp Marlborough Contemporary, New York 2017.
Image courtesy of artist and Marlborough Contemporary, New York
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.
#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #AnneNeukamp #MarlboroughContemporary #MarlboroughContemporarygallery #TheFamiliarObject #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #consumerism #ornamental #decor #geomtric #shapes #lines #typography #advertising #pictograms #cartoons #artgerman #germanart #artingermany #artdusseldorf
Exhibition Review - Ann Cathrin November Høibo at Carl Freedman Gallery, London till 17th June 2017.
“November Høibo's lost stitches in a fistful of thread gathered in around the memories of a spool."- Drenched Co.
Notes: "November Høibo's weaves, slung across backs of chairs, draped across rails and stairs, fresh out of dark dusty closets, fill the room with the rustle of faint sighs. They have outlived their usefulness, memories of warmth and fullness; loose fists of tangles, reminders of a curve, a fit, an impression. Their stubborn excesses drive their weave and weft through gravity laden air, ballast that unravels but prevents them from falling out of our world , only further, deeper like a yearning that both shields you and drives you out of your skin. Loved 'My Friends 5'." - JayZee
See http://carlfreedman.com/exhibitions/2017/2313/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/06/exhibition-review-ann-cathrin-november.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, 2017.
Credits: Copyright the artist, courtesy Carl Freedman Gallery, London Photo: Mariell Lind Hansen.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.
#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #AnnCathrinNovemberHoibo #CarlFreedmanGallery #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #weave #weft #tapestry #fabric #textiles #clothes #fetish #dancingfingers #ElseMarieJakobsen #HannahRyggen #FridaHansen
Exhibition Review - Group show:'The problem with having a body / is that it always needs to be somewhere', The Approach, London till 14th May 2017.
“What exactly is it that needs shoring?"- Drenched Co.
Notes: "My meanderings begin from and through the work of the only male artist in this group show. I am perched on a tide of bodily waters, sloshing, swirling, frothing, back and forth, in and out in rhythmic displacements of bodies, knocking back, unclogging channels, clearing paths. This beat presses the body into potential, into colonised spaces, into the conflict between life as limited and life as continuity. I am witness to an impending tsunami of release and expression, heading a charge against an eon of assimilating the impact on the body made by a white male universe. Shored by the limits of the skin, a rhythm rises against the epidermal understanding of personhood, against the dynamics of visibility and occlusion and against designed movements of a conquered body set in time and space. The skin, frontier of the new resistance, in a battle of blows against tyranny is chrysalides to colonised ghostly bodies and it is warping space into impossible bodies everywhere. What again is it that needs shoring?!" - FaSa
See https://theapproach.co.uk/exhibitions/the-problem-with-having-a-body-is-that-it-always-needs-to-be-somewhere/images/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/05/exhibition-review-group-showthe-problem.html
Caption: The problem with having a body / is that it always needs to be somewhere, Installation view at The Approach, 2017.
Credits: Image courtesy of the artists and The Approach, London. Photo: FXP photography.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.
#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #AnaVieira #ZiliaSánchez #BIngridOlson #PaulMaheke #AlexandraBircken #HeidiBucher #KikiKogelnik #JulianaCerqueiraLeite #TheApproach #TheApproachgallery #Theproblemwithhavingabodyisthatitalwaysneedstobesomewhere #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #impossiblebodies #absentbodies #skin #shored #malegaze
Exhibition Review - Mat Chivers:'Harmonic Distortion', PM/AM, London till 16th April 2017.
“Art's new technology is a broken technology."- Drenched Co.
From Svetlana Boym's Off-Modern Manifesto.
Comment: "Mat Chivers' encounters with machines surprises us. He is an accomplished conductor of his own fallibility. Engaging with information is an interminable process and translation is an impossibility. But Mat is persistent and his margin of error is his margin of freedom to create surprising art, to allow us an inroad into information, a way to digest it, inhabit it and make meaning from it. But these 'models' of 'clouds' are more - they are receptacles of dreams and longings and mysteries, ruins of some alternative history out of a universe of alternative outcomes, engaging with history in a way to place it in a new motion, open to the present. Fabulous. I liked the Shibari inspired performance most." - Raj
See http://www.pmam.org/exhibitions/mat-chivers-harmonic-distortion/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/04/exhibition-review-mat-chiversharmonic.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Mat Chivers© PM/AM, London 2017.
Credits: Image courtesy of the artist and PM/AM, London. Photography: David Brook
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. And these views, they are ours only and not those of the gallery or artist.
#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #MatChivers #PMAM #pmamgallery #HarmonicDistortion #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #SvetlanaBoym #walterbenjamin #marblesculptures #shibari #performanceart #artperformance #dataanalysis #environment #data #cloud #wave
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.
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