Sodden Ties
Exhibition organized by Jakob Forster 3 – 20 September 2020, Linker Rottekade 18A, Rotterdam
An exhibition of works by Jakob Forster, Lili Huston-Herterich, Alexander Iezzi, Matheline Marmy, and Victor Santamarina, with a text by Anastasia Shin.
Read the exhibition text as a .PDF here.
This exhibition was in the empty room that that would become my studio from September 2020 to January 2021, right after the exhibition completed. The sculpture exhibited in Sodden Ties was made with the table that friend and artist Alexander Iezzi left me to work on (it was his studio before I moved in), and a collection of partially rotted clothes I found in the forests of Solna, the suburb I lived in outside of Stockholm, Sweden in the summer of 2020. I took these clothes, washed and salvaged, back with me in my luggage when I moved back to Rotterdam. I hadn't had neither space nor time to make any physical work that fall, so this sculpture was an armature to introduce four characters developed speculatively through the clothes I found. This table armature, which supports a large pane of glass, is still my studio table.
See text elements reproduced in .PDF here.
Linages of this work
The four characters introduced in this sculpture were developed and introduced again in a public billboard work I made with Pumice Raft in Toronto in 2021 called A Room with Four People, where the same garments also made an appearance. The characters were also written into an unfinished script exhibited alongside the public billboards.
That unfinished script was heavily edited later to become the script for a video work called The Sack Hold You, Panter, a video work made with ceramic puppets. These four characters remain as the main characters of this work.
