Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery presents ‘As If Ever A Wave Has Reached The Shore’, a group show curated by Jan-Philipp Frühsorge, on display until July 15.
Roey Victoria Heifetz, Wura Natasha Ogunji, Françoise Pétrovitch, Nil & Karin Romano, Lionel Sabatté, Jean-Luc Verna, and Jorinde Voigt make part of this group.
Roey Heifetz, a transgender woman, creates large-scale drawings depicting women as both older and different versions of themselves, addressing gender transition, emotional and psychological implications, and age. The artist interrogates herself and her body vision, revealing deeper truths through her drawings.
Wura Ogunji, a visual artist and performer, uses delicate tracing paper and thread to create delicate gestures. Her artwork, “Me as him, imagined sunset,” explores empathy and imagination’s ability to transcend the void between our bodies.
Francoise Pétrovitch’s series of drawings of Saint Sebastian, based on old master paintings, emphasizes the tormented male body, focusing on the torso of black liquid ink. The series highlights the pain and ecstasy of tortured individuals, highlighting the transcendent pain of the individual’s separation.
Nil and Karin Romano, twins, live and work together as self-taught artists. Their unique language blends ornamental patterns and repetitive structures with inner world scenes, reflecting Rilke’s famous quote, “Beauty is nothing but the beginning of a terror that we can only bear, and we admire it because it calmly disdains to destroy us.”
Lionel Sabatté explores the ephemeral and physical remains of existence, using transformation processes and alchemy as guiding principles. His portrait drawings are made from dust collected in Paris Metro stations, while his Bonsai plants carry human skin blossoms.
Jean-Luc Verna’s practice combines various disciplines, including drawing, performance, sculpture, and photography, with the body playing a significant role. He celebrates his family members, including singers Nico and Siouxie, and their lives and music as a resonance between art history and their experiences.
Jorinde Voigt’s work, intersecting self-perception, environment, and linguistic ambiguity, employs Niklas Luhmann’s ideas on love and passion. Her drawings — maps and diagrams of experience — question the paradoxes in scientific recordings and the emergence of mental images into reality.
The exhibition, featuring international artists from Nigeria, Israel, Germany, and France, explores the concept of the other through body representations, language, and desire. Drawing creates intimacy and invites people to share moments of fragility and intensity, addressing the ambiguity and doubt in true human encounters.
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery exhibits innovative international artists, both emerging and established, with strong theoretical and aesthetic foundations. The gallery values a multicultural curatorial approach and maintains close relationships with museums and curators worldwide.
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