When the grid goes soft
dal 12/12/2013 al 31/1/2014
Segnalato da
12/12/2013
When the grid goes soft
Motinternational, London
Nathan Bomford and Cedric Bomford have been invited to construct an installation that will function as a sculptural form, as well as a framing device for the work of Jakob Kolding and Melanie Manchot. It is built from salvaged and reclaimed materials.
Curated by Persilia Caton
Nathan Bomford and Cedric Bomford have been invited to construct an installation that will function as a sculptural form, as well as a framing device for the work of Jakob Kolding and Melanie Manchot. Built from locally sourced, salvaged and reclaimed materials, the Bomford’s describe their plan-less process as ‘thinking through building’. Their practice is a lived experience centred on the act of working.
Positioned within the Bomford’s installation, Manchot’s film Tracer draws attention to the perception of built forms. Through the actions of parcour runners and the structures that support their movements, a reciprocal connection between the individual, the collective, and the environment is made.
Placed in the public sphere and in the gallery, Jakob Kolding’s collaged posters utilize text and imagery from theatre, cinema and literature to further his examination of how people react to their surroundings.
The artists’ works are positioned together as an ideological construction to examine and question the formation, function and experience of urban space and place. This interconnectedness is located between the interior mind, external physicality and the built world, with each understanding of place contingent on the self.
Cedric Bomford (b. 1975 Canada) and Nathan Bomford's (b. 1977 Canada) collaborative installations have been exhibited in Canada at the Vancouver Art Gallery (with Jim Bomford) and the Or Gallery, Vancouver; Open Space Gallery, Victoria; The Symposium for Contemporary Art, Baie-St-Paul, Quebec; and the Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo.
Melanie Manchot's (b. 1966 Germany, lives and works in London, UK) work has been shown at The Whitechapel Gallery, London; MacVal, Musée d’Art Contemporaine, Paris; The Photographers Gallery, London; Galerie m, Bochum, Germany; The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Australian Museum of Photography, Sydney; The Courtauld Institute, London; Museum Folkwang, Essen and as part of Nuit Blanche, Paris.
Jakob Kolding (b. 1971 Denmark, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) has exhibited at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam; The Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Overgaden-Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen; Kunstverein, Hamburg; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor.
KINDLY SUPPORTED BY
MFA Curating, Goldsmiths, University of London
British Columbia Arts Council
Canada Council for the Arts
The Bomford's will be present for an informal conversation on Saturday 14 December, 16.00.
Private View, Friday 13 December, 18.00 - 20.00
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(closed for winter break 21 December - 6 January)