RAE HICKS & CHARLES SANDFORD
Red Dog, Black Wolf. Will
You Remember Your Name?
Curated by
Isabel Dexter
14 August – 5 September 2015
Preview: 13 August 2015,
18:30-21:00
Artist Talk: 27 August 2015,
19:00
press release
Pi Artworks is pleased to
announce the second exhibition of its summer programme. The French phrase
'entre le chien et le loup'
(between dog and wolf) describes a moment during
dusk, before dark, where one cannot distinguish between a dog and a wolf.
It
expresses the ambiguity between the familiar and the comfortable, versus the
unknown and the dangerous. Between the
domestic and the wild,
the living and the dead. It is a liminal state of
in-betweenness; that uncertain, alluring threshold between hope and fear.
For Red Dog, Black Wolf.
Will You Remember Your Name? the gallery
will be subsumed by a constellation of works by London-based artists
Charles
Sandford and Rae Hicks. Through a series of interventions the gallery will be
transformed into a semi-domestic, eerie interior populated by objects,
which
span paintings, sculpture, installation and performance. These objects will
employ recognisable forms and shapes, which enable them
to simultaneously
retain their subjective autonomy as artworks, whilst at the same time act as
placeholders for domestic and funeral motifs,
creating an uncanny impression of
double identities jostling for attention.
Artwork Captions
Left: Rae Hicks, Los Simpsons, 2015, oil on canvas ,152 x 122 cm
Right: Rae Hicks, Floorwall, oil on canvas, ladder, 210 x 160 cm
Artworks Captions
Left: Charles Sandford, The Undergrowth, 2015, c-print
Right: Charles Sandford, Rape Scene, 2014, Velvet, wind-screen
mechanism, curtain rail. 200 x 180 cm
All artworks courtesy of the
artists and Pi Artworks Istanbul/London
Pi ARTWORKS London
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