Pi Artworks Istanbul will host the exhibition “f r a g m e n t e d f r a g m e n t f r a g m e n t s” of artists Carys Briggs and Francis Field, curated by Ashlee Conery, from Saturday 7 January through Saturday 25 February.
From the organizer:
f r a g m e n t e d f r a g m e n t f r a g m e n t s begins at the point of escape. A point, where the choice is to innovate and leave in search of new frontiers or survey fragments for familiar patterns to build an environment between home and away. This exhibition does not seek to document the present moment but to guess at the future through the lenses of architecture and the abstract. In 1968 Hans Hollein famously said ‘Alles ist Architektur’ (Everything is architecture). With this he implied that the process of transforming material – any material – was in fact architecture. Francis Field’s plans for constructing an ocean in space using asteroids as the raw material and the Translunar Lagrange Point (L2) as the site, takes this proposition a step further. At the time of its completion Ocean would be the greatest resource for sustaining human life in outer-space and supporting our further exploration of distant solar systems. It would also be an evolving ecosystem. Its concept inverts the current practice of discovering resources and sustaining them, to making reproductive resources that may evolve beyond our ability to access them.
At present the term ‘alien’ has expanded in contemporary rhetoric to include those outside our hemisphere as well as those beyond our atmosphere. The borders at which one becomes alien, are liminal spaces where potential and regression, economics and physics, collide. The installation by London based fibre artist Carys Briggs incorporates empirical methods of analysis, laying them over abstract representations in a constructed world of fragments. By reducing familiar forms to vague representations on layers of fabrics, whose textures are both surface and structure, she positions the viewer as a foreigner searching for associations -wandering through an environment that is between memory and discovery.
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For more information, check out the official exhibition page.
Monday – Saturday / 10:00 – 19:00
+90 212 293 71 03
Eda Derala: ed@piartworks.com
Tuğba Esen: te@piartworks.com
Featured Image Source – Whistle, 2016, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm (press release)
İstiklal Cad. Mısır Apt. 163/4 – Beyoğlu
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