Yuchen Fang
Done With Objects
Because Things Take Place
The exhibition Done With Objects Because Things Take Place began to show in London FOLD Gallery from March to April 2017. In this exhibition, Valérie Kolakis decides to explore the image of city space and its temporary conditions by industrial mass production and ubiquitous materials in everyday life. He aims to change our feeling habits of objects by creation, showing various fragments that appear to vary in shape and material and a fragile balance between visible and invisible, familiar and a strong sense of uneasiness.
This exhibition contrasts sculptures and installation works in our realistic ideas by exploring families, displaced people and everyday objects. The main
background of this project is nothingness and vacancy in the surrounding environment. The work of this exhibition challenges our view on spatial structure due to hints on unfinished or abandoned structure.
The exhibition mode represents abstraction of architecture. Visitors would feel empty and overwhelmed in the exhibition space. I like the formal sense presented by those works for my great interest in minimalism and aesthetics of constructivism. Many works integrate into empty space without fence and even become one part of the separated space. Black frameworks appear in many works, and form clear structure identifiers. These structures do not form any definite shape, and the feeling wandering certainty between uncertainty coincides with the theme. It is a very interesting exhibition for me, and it has some communication and resonance with my views on space and structure.
Picture of the exhibition in London FOLD Gallery
Picture of the exhibition in London FOLD Gallery