Peres Projects gallery is hosting “The Mulch,” a solo exhibition of new work by British artist Rebecca Ackroyd.“She describes how the sculptures of reclining figures in the Berlin show will be ‘basking’ – like lizards in the sun…in 2018, I think her creations inhabit the street. She casts from door shutters now (‘Carriers,’ she calls the series): the sort of exclusionary, protective, oddly rhythmic structures that punctuate every walk, however short, in the area of London where she works and I live. In Peres Projects, Ackroyd tells me, she wants to build a long wall up to the ceiling, making the space into a runway, or a road,” says Mathew McLean, the interviewer of the artist.“Public discourse today is clustered around images of (im)mobility – trade routes, borders, walls and crossings, agencies switching cities, boats sinking. The fires I see have a portable quality, like oversize luggage. Their being shell-like is part of this portability too,” adds McLean.Rebecca Ackroyd was born in 1987 in Cheltenham, UK. She was awarded a BA degree in Fine Art from Byam Shaw School of Art, London, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy, London.“The landscape Ackroyd creates is rife with this kind of displacement that openly confronts what belongs where, what has the right to inhabit one space rather than another. Another sculpture she shows me is a carcass of ribs, picked or bleached clean, like something from an apocalyptic Western set. The body as a structure, architecture as a body, has been a recurrent theme for this artist,” adds the gallery.“Those glasses the reclining figures wear, over their helmets: I see them as snatched from Isa Genzken’s extra-terrestrial, harlequin mannequins, adaptations for the unearthly red light and whatever environment it betokens. Ackroyd tells me, in fact, they were inspired by the shades worn by Lynda Benglis in her iconic, dildo-wielding 1976 Artforum advert…These coal-black shades, the pulled down shutters and the closed roadside case, its mystery locked within: all these are forms of the ‘The Mulch’ which, Ackroyd tells me, will give the show its name. Inscrutable dark, but nurturing an unseen energy. Who knows where the woman by the roadside is going, but she’s going somewhere, for sure,” adds McLean“The Mulch” runs through June 15, 2018, at Peres Projects, Karl-Marx-Allee 82, 10243 Berlin, Germany.For details, visit: http://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/peres-projects/overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek into the artworks.http://www.blouinartinfo.comFounder Louise Blouin
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