Galleries Curate: Together

Galleries Curate: Rhe

A virtual conversation with Gabriel Kuri, Aki Sasamoto, Simon Starling, Sue Williamson, moderated by Clément Delépine

About this EventFour artists discuss their works included in current exhibitions as part of the global initiative "Galleries Curate: RHE" and the significance of water as a unifying theme.

About the speakersGabriel Kuri (Mexico City, 1970) lives and work between Mexico City and Bruxelles.Gabriel Kuri&#x27;s art maintains an effective balance between poetic sensibility and conceptual skill. In his works, composed by installations, photographs, drawings and sculptures, he displays personal observations of the day-to-day life into the terrain of formal aesthetics, setting up a creative dialogue of many tropes including cultural identity, history and, temporality. Kuri&#x27;s world is structured on a playful language and festive decoration made by common objects and materials of low-level commerce for their physical properties and particular meanings. A recurrent theme is time and how the objects can incarnate its signs. Kuri&#x27;s works become involuntary sculptures that commemorate its flow, each element is related with others in refusing any hierarchy between the everyday stuff and art: objects and fragments, protagonists of context always different, seem to acquire new meanings.<a href="https://www.franconoero.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">(Galleria Franco Noero, Turin)</a>Aki Sasamoto (Yokohama, 1980) lives and work in New York.Aki Sasamoto is a New York-based Japanese artist who works in performance, sculpture, dance, and whatever other medium it takes to get her ideas across. Her works have been shown both in performing art and visual art venues worldwide. She has collaborated with musicians, choreographers, scientists and scholars, and she plays multiple roles as dancer, sculptor, or director.   Sasamoto&#x27;s performance/installation works revolve around gestures of nothing and everything. Her installations are careful arrangements of sculpturally altered found objects, and the decisive gestures of her improvisational performances create feedback, responding to sound, objects, and moving bodies. The constructed stories seem personal at first, yet oddly open to varying degrees of access, relation, and reflection.<a href="https://www.takeninagawa.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">(Take Ninagawa, Tokyo)</a>Simon Starling (Epsom, 1967) lives and works in Copenhagen.Starling works often involve replicating or reconfiguring familiar objects as a means of engaging the present, often to the point where they become something else entirely.His creations consist of one connection after the other, with increasingly convoluted variations along a thought that is constantly searching for the essence, the origin of things, the prototype. The process of transfiguration of an object, or of a substance into another, as well as the alteration of natural elements, are, as the artist described his work: “the physical manifestation of a thought process”.<a href="https://www.franconoero.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">(Galleria Franco Noero, Turin)</a>Sue Williamson (Lichfield, 1941) lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.Sue Williamson emigrated with her family to South Africa in 1948. Trained as a printmaker, Williamson also works in installation, photography and video. In the 1970s, she started to make work which addressed social change during apartheid and by the 1980s Williamson was well known for her series of portraits of women involved in the country’s political struggle. Referring to her practice, Williamson says: “ I am interested in objects, often very humble ones, and the stories behind them. I am interested in the media, in the subtext that runs behind newspaper reports, and in books which may seem mundane like a tourist guidebook. But most of all I am interested in people, in their stories, and in the exact words they use to describe their memories, experiences and expectations’. Williamson has avoided the rut of being caught in an apartheid-era aesthetic, constantly re-assessing changing situations, and finding new artistic languages to work out her ideas. In 2018, Williamson was Goodman Gallery’s featured artist at the FNB Joburg Art Fair, where she exhibited her work Messages from the Atlantic Passage, a large- scale installation of shackled, suspended glass bottles engraved with details taken from 19th century slave trade documents. This installation was also exhibited the previous year at Art Basel in Switzerland and at the Kochi- Muziris Biennale in India in 2018. <a href="https://www.goodman-gallery.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">(Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town and London)</a>

About the moderatorClément Delépine is an independent curator and critic and the current Co-Director of the art fair Paris Internationale. Between 2010 and 2015, Delépine worked at Swiss Institute in New York. Interested in providing new perspectives for celebrated works and established artists as well as encouraging the recognition of young artists in institutional contexts, he curated several exhibitions ranging from the first monographic exhibition of Niele Toroni in an American institution in 25 years to the first institutional shows of young artists Dora Budor, Julien Ceccaldi, and Thomas Julier. In 2016, he moved to Paris to co-direct the art fair Paris Internationale. Founded in 2015 as a disruptive alternative to traditional art fair models, Paris Internationale is dedicated to promoting the work of young galleries and the emerging artists they represent. In 2021, Delépine was offered to coordinate Galleries Curate: RHE, a collaborative initiative helmed by 21 international galleries, presenting exhibitions themed around water taking place concurrently in the exhibition spaces of the participating galleries as well as a digital platform.

<a href="https://galleriescurate.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Galleries Curate</a><a href="https://galleriescurate.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>In the first days of the Covid-19 pandemic, an informal group of contemporary galleries from around the world came together to discuss how to navigate through the new challenges of the global crisis as it affected our artists, staff and businesses. The relationships among us over weeks of exchange became close and essential and we discovered that while the pandemic had broken many things apart, it had also brought us together. A supportive sense of community ignited positivity and cooperative interactions, and the initial group of twelve grew to twenty-one. As an expression of this unity we initiated Galleries Curate, a collaborative exhibition designed to express the dynamic dialogue between our individual programmes.Galleries Curate: RHE is the first chapter of this collaboration, an exhibition and website themed around a universal and, we hope, unifying subject: water. Like culture, water is never static but always in flux. From January 4th until May 30th, 2021, a total of 21 exhibitions will be presented concurrently on our online platform and the exhibition spaces of the participating galleries.Following the inaugural exhibition RHE, Galleries Curate plan to invite new participants and add further curated chapters to a global conversation of thematic relationships between galleries, artists, and their audiences.

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