Displaced Fragments
Collaboration with Te Palandjian.
80 x 80 x 20 cm/100 x 50 x 90 cm/300 x 15 x 80 cm; Britishclay deposits, jesmonite, steel, breezeblocks
80 x 80 x 20 cm/100 x 50 x 90 cm/300 x 15 x 80 cm; Britishclay deposits, jesmonite, steel, breezeblocks
Exhibition: and you would have to believe it, Copeland Gallery Peckkam, London (UK). 2024
Working in collaboration for the first time, Nele and Te brought together their research on material, recontextualization, and landscape (specifically solar farms, greenhouses, the desert, excavation sites). Two installations were created. For each installation, the artists work using a communicative two-step method, with one responding to the sculpture that the other provides.
"For 'Displaced Fragments', Te makes casts from marks left by her body whilst recycling British clay deposits. Nele considers how the features of stagnant objects reference the past physical and mental energy involved working with materials in a conscious way. Resituating Te’s casts in acuratorial context, Nele arranges and frames this record of sustained movementas artefacts on display. "
"For 'Displaced Fragments', Te makes casts from marks left by her body whilst recycling British clay deposits. Nele considers how the features of stagnant objects reference the past physical and mental energy involved working with materials in a conscious way. Resituating Te’s casts in acuratorial context, Nele arranges and frames this record of sustained movementas artefacts on display. "