Sonia Almeid‌, Sophie Bueno-Boutellie‌, Ann Cathrin November Høibo‌, Virginia Overton‌, Marianne Spurr

Plenitude
Curated by Stephan Tanbin Sastrawidjaja

 

Sonia Almeida
Sophie Bueno-Boutellier
Ann Cathrin November Høibo
Virginia Overton
Marianne Spurr

 

Quotidian materials are so familiar to us now in their use in contemporary art that whatever radicalism and rupture was first attached to their use is now subsumed under their commonplace occurrence. What makes the use of such vernacular materials and processes in non-representational art so widespread is perhaps that they offer artists such diversity and sufficiency, and that this plenitude – an abundance of at hand materials and their transformative possibilities – is coupled with a valuable (and potentially ethically correct) economy of means. An interesting, and some what perverse, side of this ‘everyday abstraction’, and one that may be a telling mark of our age, is that these various transformations result (i.e. are ‘collected’) in the long term preservation and veneration of things otherwise classified as cultural residue and detritus.

Sonia Almeida (b. 1978, Lisbon) lives and works in Boston. Studied at Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London (2006). Recent solo exhibitions at Simone Subal, New York (2012), T293, Rome (2011), and Chiado 8, Culturgest, Lisbon and Croxaphox, Gent (2009).

Sophie Bueno-Boutellier (b. 1974, Toulouse) lives and works in Berlin. Studied at Villa Arson, Nice (2001). Recent solo exhibitions at Circus, Berlin (2012), and Freymond-Guth, Zurich
 and Kunstverein Langenhagen (2011).

Ann Cathrin November Høibo (b. 1979, Kristiansand) lives and works in Oslo and New York. Studied at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Städelschule, Frankfurt (2011). Recent solo exhibitions at Oslo Kunstforening, STANDARD (OSLO) and Oslo Fine Art Society (2012).

Virginia Overton (b. 1971, Nashville) lives and works in New York. Studied at University of Memphis (2005). Recent solo exhibitions at The Kitchen, New York and The Power Station, Dallas (2012) and the Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville (2010).

Marianne Spurr lives and works in London. Studied at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University and Royal College of Art, London (2012). Recent solo and two-person shows at Seventeen, London (2012), Hilary Crisp, London, with Oscar Murillo (2011) and The Wallis, London (2008).