SoiL Thornton

REST noun

a. period of relaxing

a period of time in which you relax, do not do anything active, or sleep

b. remaining part/people/things

the other things, people, or parts that remain or that have not been mentioned

c. support

an object that supports the weight of something

Galerie Neu is pleased to present The Rest, SoiL Thornton’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.

SoiL Thornton works with and against language and meaning. While their chosen grammar is deconstruction, they enjoy playing with misunderstandings and ambiguities. The titles and techniques of the works, which often have a lyrical quality of their own, offer clues about their methodology.

The exhibition invites the visitor to dive into a complexly playful and multi sensorial experience in the linguistic ambiguities of the word “rest” and perhaps encounter on the way questions relating to productivity and othering.

SoiL Thornton (b. 1990, US) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Their practice crosses boundaries of media, ranging from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation and video. SoiL Thornton grapples with identity politics, diversity, productivity, systems of order, and regulative apparatuses.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Simian, Copenhagen (upcoming, June 2025); “candidate screening methods”, Progetto, Lecce (2024); “Painting, the shorter of the longest”, Morán Morán, Los Angeles (2024); “Choosing Suitor”, Secession, Vienna (2023); “Decomposition Evaluation”, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld (2022) and “Moreover, does productivity know what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?”, Galerie Neu, Berlin (2021).