SCREEN AND DRAPE - ArtMoorHouse London

SCREEN AND DRAPE AN

EXHIBITION

BY

NEU.BAU

SINAIDA MICHALSKAJA - NIKOLAS VENTOURAKIS 16.02.2016 - 12.03.2016

SINAIDA MICHALSKAJA

No. 22/1 (curtain & lilies) 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm 1/5+2AP, £1000

No. 22/2 (curtain & lilies) 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm 1/5+2AP, £1000

No. 22/3 (curtain & lilies) 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm 1/5+2AP, £1000

No. 22/4 (curtain & lilies) 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm 1/5+2AP, £1000

No. 22/5 (curtain & lilies) 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm 1/5+2AP, £1000

No. 15/1 (door, mirror & globe) 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm 1/5+2AP, £1000

No. 15/2 (door, mirror & globe) 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm 1/5+2AP, £1000

No. 15/3 (door, mirror & globe) 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm 1/5+2AP, £1000

No. 15/4 (door, mirror & globe) 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm 1/5+2AP, £1000

No. 15/5 (door, mirror & globe) 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm 1/5+2AP, £1000

No. 20/1 (empty window), 2016, c-print, framed, 90 x 70 cm, 1/2 AP, £2000 Edition n. 10

NIKOLAS VENTOURAKIS

The Motel I, 2016 c-print, framed, 80 x 100 cm 1/5+2AP, £800

The Motel II, 2016 c-print, framed, 80 x 100 cm 1/5+2AP, £800

The Green Room I, 2016, c-print, framed, 100 x 80 cm 1/5+2AP, £1500

The Motel III, 2016 c-print, framed, 80 x 100 cm 1/5+2AP, £800

The Green Room II, 2016, c-print, framed, 100 x 80 cm 1/5+2AP, £1500

“In Screen and Drape the artists confront the non-places that their respective subjects provide, which can be thin like a pane of glass, or narrow like a motel room, or huge like a tree in the background. As transitional thresholds that do not contain anything, these non-places allow entering and exiting, but not staying and resting. Things pass through them… A motel room, a door, a window, a curtain: all structures that facilitate passing and are productions of repetitions of conformity and familiarity.” - Neu.Bau (Sinaida Michalskaja, Nikolas Ventourakis) Neu.Bau reconstruction [rebuilding, renovation] Neubau {m} [Umbau]archi.

Exhibiting the photographs of particular components of interiors and exteriors of buildings you approach the point where the architecture elements are reassembled in a new space. A space where the images enhance and recreate the unstable relation between the perception of a thing and our reconstruction of the idea of it.

Sinaida Michalskaja’s images are taken from her larger body of work “Running My Window from A to Z”. In the two sequences, "No. 15/1-5" and "No. 22/1-5", the artist’s window fans out into sets of repeated images.

The sequences respond to a constellation that constitutes a gap in time and space produced by the repeated image. “No. 20/1 (The Empty Window)” is the abstraction of the window as it reduces it to its elementary particles –– the frame and the glass –– thereby creating the ideal surface that contains almost nothing but itself.

Nikolas Ventourakis’ “The Green Room 1+2” seem to blur our vision, while in fact their latent actuality makes us put together a clear image in our own mind. We instinctively know that the indecipherable packet of cigarettes on the side table is indeed a Marlboro, and we feel estranged and yet familiar. His “Motel Room” images mark spaces that are always the same. The only thing individual in a motel room is the individual, everything else is ideal, formal, economical. By finding repetition in those spaces and sending out mixed messages and contradictory cues, the artist reveals the narratives of the stories these non-places produce.

Sinaida Michalskaja was born in Moscow and is currently living in London, Cologne and Berlin. She graduated with distinction from Central Saint Martins with an MA in Photography and is member of the German National Academic Foundation. In 2014 she won the Nova Award and was finalist of the Celeste Prize. Essays on her work have been published in Philosophy of Photography and Photomonitor. Her work has been included in exhibitions in the US, China, Russia, Italy, Germany and the UK. Nikolas Ventourakis is a visual artist living and working between Athens, Greece and London, UK. His photographic practice fuses fine art and documentation, and relies on the manifested misconceptions and assumptions, created by the interaction between the viewer and the work. He completed an MA in Photography with Merit at Central Saint Martins School of Arts (2013) and is the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Award in Photography (2013). As one of the top graduating artists in the UK he was selected for Future Map (2013), Catlin Guide (2014) and Fresh Faced Wild Eyed (2014) in the Photographers Gallery. In 2015 he was a visiting artist at CalArts with a FULBRIGHT Artist Fellowship and was shortlisted for the BMW Niépce Award and the Bar-Tur Award. Recently he has exhibited in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, Germany and the UK.

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