The Function of the Oblique
Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini
Sebastian Acker, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Shan Hur,Minae Kim, Jinhee Park, Tobias Zehntner
Resistance
No Format Gallery | 14 - 22 April 2012
private view: 13. 04. 2012 | 6 - 9 pm
Action
Son Gallery, Peckham | 27 April - 26 May 2012
private view: 25. 04. 2012 | 6 - 9 pm
No Fixed Abode will organise a program of
events, screenings and conversations
A project in two parts, The Function of the Oblique presents a
series of artistic responses to the eponymous work of architectural
theory by Paul Virilio and Claude Parent, in which they declare ‘the end
of the vertical as the axis of elevation’ and ‘the end of the
horizontal as the permanent plane’.
In
both
Resistance and Action the artists use concepts of the oblique as a
destabilising force, creating imbalance and unexpected outputs by
employing a variety of media to challenge traditional conceptions of
space.
In
both
Resistance and Action the artists use concepts of the oblique as a
destabilising force, creating imbalance and unexpected outputs by
employing a variety of media to challenge traditional conceptions of
space.
The concept of the oblique was presented as a new
mode of appropriating space, promoting continuous, fluid movement and
forcing the body to adapt to instability. Approached from different
attitudes, Resistance and Action, this two part exhibition takes place
across two gallery's in South East London.
Resistance
is set at No Format Gallery, Woolwich, and will be informed by
an understanding of the oblique as resistance to gravity and its
horizontal legacy.
Action
will take place at Son Gallery in Peckham and analyses physical and
architectural conditions favoring fluidity, alteration and constant
change.
Through a series of experimental events created by intersecting
fields of architecture, broadcast, film, installation and publication,
No Fixed Abode will develop forms of shared critique and reflection.
Initially a series of film screenings and performative talks are
planned. No Fixed Abode is the artistic collaboration between Robert
Quirk and Terry Slater.
Artists information
Sebastian Ackerb. 1981, Germany
lives and works in London
Sebastian Acker has a background in space design and installations often reflecting on the configuration of space individually and socially. Acker is currently studying an MA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. His work is informed by notions of space and materiality, and how this relates to the urban and physical world.
Nicolas Feldmeyer
b. 1980, Switzerland
lives and works in London
Nicolas was born 1980 in Switzerland. After studying architecture in Zurich and fine art in San Francisco, he is currently doing a master at the Slade School of Fine Art. His work explores notions
of space and its articulation in different media, questioning assumptions of normality and the elsewhere in his research and practice.
Shan Hur
b. 1981 Korea
lives and works in London
Shan Hur is a Korean artist who lives and works in London. Hur holds an MFA in Sculpture from
Slade School of Art (2010) and has exhibited extensively in the UK. Hur's sculptural interventions disrupt the viewers perception of the white cube, directly implicating the gallery space as an active element in the artwork itself. The ideas, which inform Hur’s practice, derive from a fascination in the moment of transition when a particular space is reconfigured for a new purpose and questions our perceptions.
Minae Kim
b.1981, Korea
lives and works in London
The origins of Kim’s works are based on the urban or structural environments present in our everyday life. Kim observes, reflects and reverts the physical and conceptual function of what sometimes is left out, hidden or un-noticed. The elements used in Kim works are often detourned replicas of preexistent details which call for attention and suddenly animate to become the centre of reflection. Kim installations raise questions about the nature of the spaces we inhabit and our relationship therein. Minae Kim holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, 2011 and her works has been recently part of New Contemporaries ICA, 2011 and RCA Final Degree Show, 2011.
Jinhee Park
b.1979, Korea
lives and works in London
Jinhee Park holds an M.F.A from Goldsmiths College, London, 2010 and an M.F.A in Sculpture from Seoul National University, Korea, 2007. His work reflects on the time lost in familiar scenery
and records the traces left (hidden) in nature of certain occurrences or events. Time and its changes
are reflected in Park's practice as a spacial visualisation characterised by interventions on common materials such as plain wood, using as a natural point of departure to record and visualise what remains.
Tobias Zehntner
b.1983, Switzerland
lives and works in London
Tobias Zehntner holds a BA from Goldsmiths College of Art, 2011. His work is concerned with science, art and architecture intended as tools to explore phenomena while elaborating a keen interest in human and mechanical movements in time and space. Zehntner has a fascination with the
acts of looking and observing, which leads to minimalist studies of the poetry of the everyday.
A contemplative view on mundane and urban environment often reveals an appeal to modernist aesthetics and compositions, while the focus on movement often leads to a choreographical approach to synchrony and symmetry.
