MX Lagos
Sandstorms Studio exhibition at Lagos Mx Mexico City with Olga Cerkasova 7.2.-31.3
Olga Cerkasova und Isabella Fürnkäs work interdisciplinary and with a variety of media such as performance, installation, drawing and video. Both artists thematically question the body and it’s cultural identity and fluid interconnectivity through their work. Olga Cerkasova creates paintings and sculptures that reveal hidden and delicate desires in site-specific installations in the space. Isabella Fürnkäs plays with the intersections of the multiplicity of identities and reflects subversive notions of self-perception. Together they initiated a specific dialogue between their works while collaborating for the first time. The studio exhibition contains sculptural details made of plaster, sand and remastered ready mades that contextually engage with the oil paintings. The paintings blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture. The hanging cut-outs made of jute mark a fluidity and fragility which can also be observed in the small sized drawings. The artists worked site specifically and also included materials found through in their cultural research while being in Mexico City.
"Untitled" 2020 2 pieces, jute, acrylic spray, metal strings, each 1 m x 2 m
the air may have been more rarified then and the wind cooler, the sun had a different status, but nevertheless it shone as it does now, fierce and remote
what mattered was to be prepared the heights beckoned and climbing was better than descending, gravity seemed to lessen its hold and it was easier to see
a kind of connectedness, houses, dusty roads where people were moving and you could see that this place was not the only one, nor was this city nor
this time, your heart was pounding and you thought in vain about love, about having choices, freedom or solace and you felt a foolish longing to meet someone and then
you thought of the birds again, you'd always been in awe of them, the way they'd spread their wings at the last moment, to set sail in the sky
By Miriam Van hee Translation: Judith Wilkinson
Old: Olga Czerkasova and Isabella Fürnkäs work interdisciplinary and with a variety of media such as performance, installation, drawing and video. Both artists thematically question the body and it’s cultural identity and fluid interconnectivity through their work. Olga Czerkasova creates sculptures that reveal hidden and delicate desires in site-specific installations in the space. Isabella Fürnkäs plays with the intersections of the multiplicity of identities and reflects subversive notions of self-perception. Together they will collaborate for this show and create a wall painting containing sculptural details made of concrete and glass. The artists will work site specifically and include materials they will research in Mexico City.