Sara MacKillop
dal 30/6/2013 al 30/7/2013
Segnalato da
30/6/2013
Sara MacKillop
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
She is the 6th artist to be presented in the Post exhibition series. Her practice takes inspiration from both minimalism and conceptualism, exploring in a precise and subtle way the systems and objects of her immediate surroundings.
POST is an exhibition series for which the invited artists send the works and materials by post. The staff at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is responsible for installing the exhibition following the artist’s enclosed instructions. The exhibition series started 1 February 2013. Sara MacKillop is the 6th artist to be presented in the POST exhibition series.
Sara MacKillop’s practice takes inspiration from both minimalism and conceptualism, exploring in a precise and subtle way the systems and objects of her immediate surroundings. MacKillop’s starting point is often found material, typically with a connection to the hand (e.g. pens, filing folders, balls of string). MacKillop applies her own particular logic to re-purposing these objects as art, often staged as a kind of mise-en-scene or quasi-theatrical tableau. There is a dead-pan, tragic-comic humour at play in her works. Attracted to increasingly anachronistic objects, MacKillop’s work evinces a form of melancholia, if not exactly nostalgia, for an entire category of once useful products (e.g. the fax machine paper rolls which she folds concertina-style into artist’s books.) MacKillop’s process might be thought of as a kind of informal formalism, her goal a gentle subversion of norms, the result of which is to create works that – despite their ‘barely-there-ness’ – maintain an uncanny presence. (Matthew Higgs: White Columns)
For this POST exhibition MacKillop has utilised a British mass-market magazine whose readers were invited to submit pictures under the theme of ‘POST’. The published images depicted fence posts and a royal British post box. MacKillop has reflected on these submitted and published images as well as the various actions taking place when we write and send a letter as a means of communication. In previous object-based works she has investigated the sculptural qualities of analogue communication systems through minimal shifts in her presentations.
The works created for POST hint at the singular diversity of available choices of packaging for mail items, such as metallic envelopes, used in particular for prize-giving purposes, as well as the enjoyment of a parcel’s content which at first appears small but once unpacked expands into something bigger.
Sara MacKillop lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include: New Stationery Department, Motto, Berlin (solo), The Feverish Library, Capitain Petzel, Berlin (group exhibition), White Columns, New York (solo) and Spike Island, Bristol, England (solo). Recent publications: New Stationery Department, Motto Books; Ex-Library Book, Pork Salad Press; House & Garden, Paul + Wendy Projects.
POST is curated by director Jacob Fabricius, Charlottenborg. The official opening of all POST exhibitions takes place on the first day of every month – regardless of the weekday. Tea and cake will be served.
Head of Communication
Helle Bøgelund T. +45 33744633 E. helleh@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk
Vernissage 1 July 16-18
Tea and cake will be served
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Nyhavn 2 1051 Copenhagen Denmark
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday 11-17
Wednesday 11-20
Monday closed
Admission:
Adults: 60 kr, Students/Seniors: 40 kr
Children under 16 years free
Admission free Wednesday after 5pm