Silke Lindner and Rose Easton are excited to announce SL×RE, a collaborative group exhibition across both galleries in New York and London. Opening in London on 20 June, Rose Easton will show artists of SilkeLindner’s program, Nina Hartmann, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, Emma Kohlmann, Lyric Shen and Ang ZiqiZhang, while Silke Lindner will host Rose Easton’sgallery artists Arlette, Eva Gold, Louis Morlæ, AmandaMoström and Tasneem Sarkez, opening the following week on 28 June.
Nina Hartmann
Nina Hartmann’s multimedia practice operates at the nexus of painting and sculpture and investigates functions of belief systems, the fragility of information,and the history of the paranormal. Shaped panels of encaustic, resin sculptures and vinyl screens carry images collected through a research-based process that use a variety of sources including official government outlets, institutional archives and alternative sources of information. Through the use of AI and other methods of alteration, Hartmann manipulates the images she finds, questioning systems of power and hierarchies of information.
Emma Kohlmann
For the past decade, Emma Kohlmann has been primarily working in watercolour and painting, creating a distinct universe in which anthropomorphous figures, flora and fauna peacefully coexist in spiritual spaces. Visually informed by a variety of cultural references encompassing Greek and Roman mythology, modern painting history, folk art and DIY punk ephemera, her works manifest a cosmos free from hierarchies. Stylistically naive and folksy, the absence of perspectives and lack of relational scales translates the egalitarian belief system Kohlmann’s practice is rooted in. Considering not only human beings, but every living organism, a sense of togetherness and community is palpable throughout her work. In evocative color schemes, Kohlmann’s palettes transcend from nature’s elements to the spiritual, mirroring the unique spaces she creates at the intersection of the earthly and fantastical.
Lyric Shen
Working primarily in sculpture and tattoo, Lyric Shen’s practice involves a piercing awareness that covers skin and objects alike. Hand-built ceramics, metal and found objects hold images of past times, sharp yet unrefined. Through Shen’s chosen technique of water transfers shapes shift through offset boundaries and images distort like memory itself. Shen’suse of mediums combines ancient crafts like tattoo, handmade ceramic and metal work with highly industrialized techniques like plasma cutting, inkjet printing and everyday technologies like iPhone photos and videos. Crossing languages, regions and cultures in their various modes of making, Shen’s delicate sculptures show us the gentle beauty of transgression that takes shape only when in flux.
Ang Ziqi Zhang
Ang Ziqi Zhang’s small to midsize panels in soft hues and bold neons take shape within a push-pull relation that creates spaces between abstraction and subtlefiguration, desire and control, rational and affect. Investigating semiotics of Eastern culture and Western Capitalist consumer society through a subjective lens of her own understanding and interests, the bases tructure of her paintings often develops by incorporating signs, symbols, diagrams and language. Other paintings originate in abstract thought, technology or visual references of everyday experiences that lay the foundation for her multi-layered paintings. Light and blissful, like strobe lights moving through a nightclub, the paintings draw parallels to Ziqi Zhang’s engagement in club culture and her affinity for techno and electronic music.
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace collects, catalogs, archives and reorganizes. In her sculptural practice, she constructs an architecture of the self that pulls from personal references and belongings that include notes, receipts, labels, ephemera, floss, bank statements orprivacy films among other materials. Often guided by the measurements of her own body, Cage (Winter)references the dimensions of the artist’s own head. Caged and confined, Hayes-Wallace takes inventory of the self, controlling chaos, and mirroring the pre-carious constructs of her interior world and exterior surroundings
