Ane Graff

Coinciding with the eighth edition of Independent New York, next week Independent art fair will inaugurate its Harlem gallery residency program with Entrée from Bergen, Norway. Presented in collaboration with the Norwegian Consulate General, Entrée will present two solo exhibitions by Norwegian artists Ane Graff and Andrew Amorim on the 2nd floor of 2037 Fifth Avenue in Harlem.

Independent’s gallery residency programs, first launched in Brussels in Fall 2015 and now in New York, invites galleries to curate a special exhibition at the fair’s permanent spaces for a 6-8 week residency – so they can deepen their relationships with collectors and curators in the region.

"And the hand is involved – my hand, yours. It reaches forward, towards the sludged black of compressed water plants, of previously hovering beetles with veined wings, of crisscrossing branches perched in mid-air, of shifting periods defined by sudden dampness or cold, of synergies of soil and rocks and languid movements. The liquid pools on the floor in shiny sticky echoing rainbow ringlets of light: the light of circular, compressed time and interlaced narratives. It smells: the pungent, metallic smell of petroleum and others."

- Ane Graff

In “Mattering Waves”, Ane Graff presents a new body of sculptural works that poetically engage issues of identity, touch and growth. Graff, inspired by feminist science studies scholars such as Karen Barad and Donna Haraway, is interested in bringing forward the complexity and relational nature of matter – the awareness that matter is never one thing, but rather a multitude of elements entangled in a network of relations. Her sculptural work combines diverse components in a series of mutually affecting, reactive processes in which the materials change through – and with – each other. In her work, the consequences of identity and growth are rendered unknowable, and touch is materialized. Growth is no longer a linear phenomenon, but instead a series of entangled interactions – a coming into existence through complex connectivity. Underscoring issues of our time – the current man-made ecological crisis and its unknown outcomes – Graff shows us a reconfigured materiality that incorporates the human touch.

Ane Graff (b. 1974, Bodø, Norway) lives and works in Oslo. She graduated from the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in 2004 and currently holds the position of Research Fellow at the Oslo Academy of Fine Art. Her work is currently on view at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, in the exhibition “Myths of the Marble” (upcoming at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia). Recent exhibitions include “The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?)”, the 11th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, and ”Surround Audience - the 2015 New Museum Triennial”, New York City.