IN HER PLACE: Lorenzo Sandoval, Gina Folly

IN HER PLACE: Lorenzo Sandoval, Gina Folly Fellow artist solo projects

06/06/2019 at 19:30

09/06/2019

Swimming Pool

Tsar Osvoboditel 10, fl. 5, 1000

Sofia

Gina Folly
Lorenzo Sandoval

E.M.M.A., in collaboration with Swimming Pool, is pleased to present solo projects by Lorenzo Sandoval and Gina Folly realised in the context of the annual roaming program of the artistic research In Her Place. This year the program has started in Tangier with a four-days communal gathering that reunites various artists, researchers, curators and citizens to study collectively around the notions of displacement and the unknown we face in everyday life. The gathering aims to generate a common climate of knowledge from different perspectives and practices, to develop connections and networks with people and the territory where the encounter takes place, and to imagine collectively beforehand what will be done after.

During their residencies in Sofia, Folly and Sandoval have worked around merchandising and souvenirs, objects that allow to articulate the intrinsic value of past and present societies. Interested in the phenomena of social behaviour between the intimate and the public exposure, Gina Folly propose to transforms objects and symbols of this culture. At the entrance of the space, one love song is transmitted by the lamp through the intermittency of the light with no sound. Inside, the series TRAP presents five fruit boxes carrying desires, beauty, fortune and other rubbish from capitalism becoming at the same furniture that shapes our daily environment. Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain) n.II by Lorenzo Sandoval is a group of textile compositions based on fragmentary elements of Peruvian textiles. Using abstract components, it questions his own position –reflecting on the avant-garde tradition as well– by introducing the difficulties in fully access to the Peruvian cosmogony. In that way, Sandoval works with how souvenirs are both archaeological carriers and at the same time a commodification of culture in the artist’s hands. The pieces are presented in a sculptural display, and also incorporate elements related to digital cultures, which follows the artist’s recent research on the relationships between the history of textiles and the one of computation.

The exhibition was preceded by a a dinner and conversation with artists Gina Folly and Lorenzo Sandoval as well as curators Veronica Valentini (E.M.M.A.) and Viktoria Draganova (Swimming Pool, Sofia) at Swimming Pool. The dinner served as a conceptual, spacial and relational arrangement as well as a vehicle to introduce the artistic and curatorial practices of the invited, focusing on the question how we create, organise and relate to collective space.

↖ Lorenzo Sandoval, Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain).