SIDE ROOM take over of Srač0k & Pöhlmann at Sluice 2017

in association with Sračok & Pöhlmann gallery

Thursday 31st September – Sunday 3rd October 2017

Ilana Blumberg / Brian Dawn Chalkley / Daniel Devlin / Mark Lungley / Jasper Llewellyn (jin bells) / Kyungryul Park / Neal Tait / Shannon Saunders

The images of saccharine, faux Meissen ballerinas and shepherdesses, dolls with dolls, posed in front of the artist’s paintings, collages or found fabrics are installation photographs or the documentation of performances. As the images are on the recto of the printed sheet (the usual home of text), the text, now on the verso, becomes destabilized, as if fabricated to illustrate the image.

When artistic talents collide they give birth to something utterly mesmerising which holds no permanent place in any artistic era. Adjacent artworks create an uncomfortable conflict that is both beautiful and torturous to gaze upon—yet our egos do not allow us to look away. The divergent space between the work has untouched value; it is a movement in itself; a quasi-divine asymmetrical intersection forged by one artist’s style crashing into another’s; a relationship seldom explored by curators but, rather, avoided.

There are two sides to studio1.4’s exhibition Who is best: Jonny Hannah, Daniel Devlin or Herzog Dellafiore? – the highbrow, priceless art presented on white walls, and the unkempt, bargain-brow items displayed as affordable art tokens. This is an art bazaar of contemporary practices with a twist.