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| Full Steam Ahead (Fotomontage) |
Haunch of Venison, Londres
exposição individual
11.10.2012 > 17.11.2012
inauguração | 09.10.2012 | 18h-20h
«Vasconcelos proposes an ambitious set of new works, specifically conceived for her first solo exhibition at Haunch of Venison's renovated London space. Two large scale pieces and two sets of medium-sized works will interact between themselves and dialogue with the space.
On the upper floor, room 1-01 will host Valkyrie Crown, an enormous, organic textile body, suspended in the skylight; its many tentacles trail up and down the staircase, reaching the ground floor. There, on room 0-02, the tentacles connect with the tubular volumes - also textile and colourful - which pierce through constructivist-inspired structures, whose monumental version - Tetris 17th Century (the other three versions are Luso Tetris, Tetris Waves and Tetris Keil) - can be seen in the adjacent room (room 0-01). Entirely covered in colourful tiles, these structures result from the combination of different parallelepipeds, resembling the popular video game Tetris or Lego constructions. The rigid surface of the tiles is pierced by different textile arms, ellongated and soft, that run through and meander around the works' angular shapes.
Full Steam Ahead (Red #1) will be presented on the first room of the exhibition path (room 0-03). These unlikely robotised fountains built with steam irons reinterpret the behaviour of a flower's petals: the irons open and close repeatedly in order to expel steam, thus resulting in a surprising domestic-inspired, synchronised sci-fi choreography. Full Steam Ahead (Red #1) opposes and parodies other robotic universes prone to belligerent transformism.
In the exhibition proposed by Joana Vasconcelos, the mechanical structures undergoing a cyclical metamorphosis, or even the bodies that invade and adapt to the space, interacting in a viral and colourful logic, seem to resonate with the complex adaptation processes of beings to their external conditions and to their surrounding environment.»
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