Elena Damiani and Frauke Dannert: All The Pieces, Back Together 2013 Installation view. Courtesy the artists and Selma Feriani Gallery, London
Elena Damiani and Frauke Dannert
All The Pieces, Back Together
29 November 2013 – 18 January 2014
at Selma Feriani Gallery,
London, UK
Curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk
The exhibition will revolve around commissioned and recent works from the artists’ practices, focusing specifically on the possibilities of expanding collage into the space of sculpture and installation. In that, the exhibition is sought to comment on the fragmented nature of collage, in the light of its potential dimensionality when thought and approached spatially, architecturally. In so doing, the works themselves, rather than the gallery space, will become the support structure and stage for a more immersed and cinematic way of looking at fragments, materials and objects that become sequences within a comprehensive, all–encompassing environment.
An interesting connotation and shared value between the two practices is that the works are marked by a certain geographical anchoring: each work provides a number of landmarks in reference of a given (urban) site, a landscape, a bookwork, or an architectural construction. However, through the displacement, re–arrangement and editing of collected imagery, the positioning becomes ambiguous, the geographical retracing of a specific site dubious and unhinged. Arguably, the works could be seen as a form of spatial writing in which the underlying settings and resources have been stripped of their factuality: through a removal of their determining characteristics and the traceable pieces of information. Upon their disclosure in the space, the works are perhaps sought to comment on the nature of the site, but instead start to point in different directions, among a more introverted and self–referential attitude towards their material qualities and their fragmentary and abstracted nature in the key of the work as a unified whole. [read the full text here]
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London W1S 2QN
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Elena Damiani, Excavating and Remembering, 2013. Hand-carved and polished marble, collage on found books and rolled maps. Courtesy the artist and Selma Feriani Gallery, London, UK
Frauke Dannert, Plinthe, 2013. Paper collage on polished brass. Courtesy the artist and Selma Feriani Gallery, London, UK
Frauke Dannert, Untitled, 2013. Paper collage. Courtesy the artist and Selma Feriani Gallery, London, UK
Elena Damiani, Untitled, 2013. Hand-carved and polished marble and resin. Courtesy the artist and Selma Feriani Gallery, London, UK