15 June until 21 July 2017

representativ representativ

Representative web

Representation is a big word and it gets exponentially bigger when it itself is represented. Like multiplying by negatives, an absence of an absence constructs an index of an index. What would that look like?

Rod Barton presents the group show »representative representative« bringing together the works of Tom Król, Ryan Cullen, Isabel Alicia Baptista and Malte Zenses. The show, running from 15th June - 21st July 2017, will feature the cross cultural dialogue present in each artists visual practice through the contextual exchange and decrypted encryption of the pop-culture trace, physical structure and definition of the surface. The artists, having worked together since 2013, exchanging ideas via a rhythmic process of dialogue and a shared interest in the nature of representation to obscure and replace entities by others that can be seemingly unrelated. A process of building shortcuts to nothing.

The show highlights the use of both partitions and supports to separate and elevate content in order to sharpen contexts down to a finite point. These structures are about preventing the collapse of the pieces and holding the literal weight of the material against creating a collapse of the white cube. 

Artists

Isabel Baptista

Ryan Cullen

Tom Krol (HfG-Student)

Malte Zenses (HfG-Student)

15th June–21st July 2017

Private View 

15th June 2017, 6–9 pm 

Rod Barton, London

41-43 Consort Road

London SE15 3SS