Nona Inescu. Corporealle

ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM

Sunday, 1 September, 3–6 pm
Matters of Care Workshop
with Emma Waltraud Howes (Event held in English)
Register until 26 August at: galerie@kuenstlerhausbremen.de
Participation free. Donations welcome.
No previous experience required

Wednesday, 28 August, 6 pm
Curator's Tour with Nadja Quante
The solo show, Corporealle, presents works by artist Nona Inescu (*1991 in Bucharest) that focus on the human interaction with natural and primitive materials – animate and inanimate. In her photographs, videos, sculptural installations and objects, Inescu combines found objects from nature, such as stones or corals, with artificial or processed materials that imitate natural qualities. Inescu’s work prompts new ways of looking at our relationship with “nature” and challenges prevailing subject-object relations. Through playing with the similarity of forms and by setting human and non-human things on an equal level, Inescu confuses the sense of what is animate or not.

Friday, 23 August, 8.30 pm
Quadra’frog'ic Sound Performance by Felicity Mangan
Felicity Mangan is a sound artist and composer who, in different situations such as solo performances, collaborative projects with other musicians, or installations, plays her found native Australian animal archive, either through a stereophonic system or often via hand-made speakers made from recycled or displaced objects. She recently published her solo project Stereo'frogi'ic on Longform Editions and has also released the EP CAMO on Shelter Press in 2017 and a new EP to be released on Entr'acte this September, with duo project Native Instrument together with Stine Janvin Joh.
In her performance in Nona Inescu’s exhibition she will activate objects in the show by producing sounds with them.
www.felicitymangan.org
Free admission

Friday, 23 August, 6 pm
Conversation in the exhibition with Nona Inescu
In the context of a tour of the exhibition and in conversation with curator Nadja Quante, Nona Inescu will provide insights into her artistic practice. Her works challenge new perspectives on our relationship to "nature" and question the prevailing subject-object relationships.
In her photographs, videos, sculptural installations and objects, the artist combines found objects from nature, such as stones or corals, with artificial or processed materials that imitate natural qualities.
Free admission
Event in English

Wednesday, 31 July, 6 pm
Guided tour with Mara Ryser

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EXHIBITION

Nona Inescu. Corporealle

Opening: Fri, 5 July, 7 pm

We cordially invite you and your friends!

Welcome: Nicole Nowak (Executive director)
Introduction: Nadja Quante (Artistic Director/Curator)

The solo show, Corporealle, presents works by artist Nona Inescu (b. 1991 in Bucharest) that focus on the human interaction with natural and primitive materials – animate and inanimate.In her photographs, videos, sculptural installations and objects, Inescu combines found objects from nature such as stones or corals with artificial or processed materials that imitate natural qualities, like for instance latex or leather. She dissects objects, removing them from their contexts to carefully arrange them in sensual, poetic compositions of formal similarities and material juxtapositions in the exhibition space. Stones are enlivened; subject and object merge into each other and are no longer clearly distinguishable. The artist draws analogies between human, animal, vegetal and mineral features and proposes possible interactions between human and non-human bodies through physical contact or touch. Inescu’s work prompts new ways of looking at our relationship with“nature” and challenges prevailing subject-object relations. Through playing with the similarity of forms and by setting human and non-human things on an equal level, Inescu confuses the sense of what is animate or not. Corporealle is Nona Inescu’s first institutional solo exhibition.

Curated by Nadja Quante

Accompanying programme

Wednesday, 31 July, 6 pm
Guided tour with Mara Ryser

Friday, 23 August
6 pm Conversation in the exhibition with Nona Inescu (EN)
8.30 pm Quadra’frog'ic Sound Performance by Felicity Mangan

Wednesday, 28 August, 6 pm
Curator's Tour with Nadja Quante

Sunday, 1 September, 3–6 pm
Matters of Care Workshop with Emma Waltraud Howes (EN)
Register until 26 August at: galerie@kuenstlerhausbremen.de
Participation free. Donations welcome.
No previous experience required

EN = Event held in English