Collage #1: Imprint at SomoS on Berlin Art Grid

Opening Collage #1: Imprint

Artists: ingrid bittar, david woodward
Genres: collage, figurative, air, artist in residence

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 1, 2015
Duration: October 2 – 17, 2015

Indexing the weight of cumulative history, the “Imprint” collage exhibition is the first of a new series at SomoS charting innovations in this technique. It presents international artists who explore new dimensions and expand the medium’s possibilities and associations.

“Imprint” presents the work of two young collage artists, David Woodward (USA) and SomoS Summer 2015 Artist in Residence Ingrid Bittar (Brazil). The presentation traces how the artist's inventive use of heritage and history, nostalgia and retromania allow for very current and relevant work.

Apart from sharing formal similarities and a joint interest in employing crafting techniques, both artists also unites an unique ability to make subversive and imaginative use of public historic and vintage imagery to create very personal and intimate narratives.

History and heritage and the givens of this world may press their imprint on us, but it is within our options -especially in an era marked by Retromania and Ghostisms- to press back, wipe or change their impression. And while we are used to attempts at "talking back" by digital means, "Imprint" aims to show that also analog can talk back just as articulate.

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Participants:

David Woodward

Extending the received collective consciousness of our dictionary of life with queer interventions and conceptual re-imaginings, the young US artist David Woodward uses vintage source material for a very contemporary discourse. Indexing the found imagery that illustrate and symbolize the givens of this world, Woodward adds his own objects of importance to this collage mix, completing and subverting official narratives with personal, poetic and sly recombinations.

Ingrid Bittar

Ingrid Bittar’s detailed figurative collage work reflect on the formation of identity, and the things that happen inside a home. An longtime obsessive collector of old books and magazines, Bittar employs imagery from the worlds of three generations: children, parents and grandparents. A cumulative, sometimes almost literally top-heavy crushing sense of heritage is a recurrent part of the baroque narrative of the artist’s collages.
Also presented are Bittar's "Mappings," new crafty works which visually trace the lineage of her collages.

Thu, Oct 01
6:00am
Kreuzberg
Tel: 0172 3118431

Opening hours

Wednesdays - Saturdays, 14-18 hours
(during exhibitions)


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