ARCHIVE (BERLIN)
2 - 19 February 2017
Opening Night - Wednesday 1 February | 6 - 8pm
Archives function to record, collect, accumulate, correlate and preserve data, in relaying information about a place, an experience, an encounter or a moment in time.
This exhibition brings together a body of work developed by two artists (and real-life couple) Zachary Harold and Chloe Gunn. It depicts their time during their one-month residency in Berlin at the Institut für Alles Mögliche, where they have sought to respond directly with their own site-specificity. This involved exploring the city by engaging with the distinctive sense of place, in capturing and extracting moments that may otherwise go unseen and be subsequently forgotten.
For Chloe, this largely consisted of sketching anonymous individuals in parks, and thinking more broadly about the way we engage in public spaces. Particularly, this resonated in terms of considering these parks as arenas of social exchange and congregation. For Zac, this involved prolifically photographing his excursions on foot, where these images and their compositional elements would then be reappropriated in a process of reconfiguration and recalibration through his fabric collages.
Back at the studio these two processes would converge, forming a reciprocal dialogue of shared ideas and impressions; encompassing their sense of wonderment, displacement, disorientation and excitement incited by this city. In turn, this more porous way of working has forged a new language of marks, lines and imagery, specific to Zac and Chloe’s own experiences of their time in Berlin.
This exhibition brings together a body of work developed by two artists (and real-life couple) Zachary Harold and Chloe Gunn. It depicts their time during their one-month residency in Berlin at the Institut für Alles Mögliche, where they have sought to respond directly with their own site-specificity. This involved exploring the city by engaging with the distinctive sense of place, in capturing and extracting moments that may otherwise go unseen and be subsequently forgotten.
For Chloe, this largely consisted of sketching anonymous individuals in parks, and thinking more broadly about the way we engage in public spaces. Particularly, this resonated in terms of considering these parks as arenas of social exchange and congregation. For Zac, this involved prolifically photographing his excursions on foot, where these images and their compositional elements would then be reappropriated in a process of reconfiguration and recalibration through his fabric collages.
Back at the studio these two processes would converge, forming a reciprocal dialogue of shared ideas and impressions; encompassing their sense of wonderment, displacement, disorientation and excitement incited by this city. In turn, this more porous way of working has forged a new language of marks, lines and imagery, specific to Zac and Chloe’s own experiences of their time in Berlin.
