Exhibition · Epepep
Patterns & Stains
Dec 7 – Feb 7
About the show
Vanessa Billy, Mark Borthwick, Henry Codax, Anne Daems, Victor Esther, Nicolas Guagnini, Raphael Hefti, Jacqueline Humphries, Jochen Lempert, Arvid Logan, Bruno Jakob, Fabio Marco Pirovino, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Jiajia Zhang
Industrial patterns found in common, often overlooked materials such as handkerchiefs, wrapping paper, pegboards, tapes and lattice are meticulously reproduced, scanned, observed, found and used as ready mades by some of the artists in the show.
In contrast, water, oil and light leaks, invisible painting, printing errors and individual gestures produce another set of vocabulary. One that is purposely uncontrollable within a given set - up. One that allows chance and subjectivity as producers of the work.
Patterns and stains both leave a mark. In combination, the presented works shift between the blurriness of an accidental stain and the precision of a machine produced pattern. The eye zooms in and out, an exercise in looking at what is around and within us.