Artists: Gina Folly, Lorenzo Sandoval
Exhibition title: In Her Place
Curated by: Viktoria Draganova
Venue: Swimming Pool, Sofia, Bulgaria
Date: June 6 – 9, 2019
Photography: © E.M.M.A. in collaboration with Swimming Pool, Sofia. Photo: Yana Lozeva
E.M.M.A., in collaboration with Swimming Pool, is pleased to present solo projects by Lorenzo Sandoval and Gina Folly realized in the context of the annual roaming program of artistic research In Her Place. This year the program started in Tangier with a four-days communal gathering of various artists, researchers, curators and citizens to study collectively notions of displacement and the unknown аs we face them in everyday life. The gathering aims to generate a common climate of knowledge derived from different perspectives and practices, to develop connections and networks between the people and the territory where the encounter takes place, and to imagine collectively beforehand what will be done after.
During their residencies in Sofia, Folly and Sandoval worked around merchandising and souvenirs as those objects that articulate intrinsic values of past and present societies. Interested in how our social behavior is being determined through both intimate and public exposure, Gina Folly transforms objects and symbols of this culture. At the entrance of the space, one love song is transmitted by the lamp through the intermittency of the light with no sound. Inside, the TRAP series encompasses five fruit boxes that carry desires, beauty, fortune and other rubbish from capitalism while becoming furniture that shapes our daily environment.
Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain) n.II by Lorenzo Sandoval is a group of textile compositions based on fragmentary elements of Peruvian textiles. Using abstract components, it questions his own position – reflecting on the avant-garde tradition as well – by introducing the difficulties to fully access to the Peruvian cosmogony. In such way, Sandoval discusses souvenirs as both archaeological carriers and commodification of culture in the artist’s hands. The pieces are presented within a sculptural display that also incorporates elements related to digital cultures, which follows the artist’s recent research on the relationship between the histories of textiles and computation.
The exhibition was preceded by a dinner and conversation with artists Gina Folly and Lorenzo Sandoval as well as curators Veronica Valentini (E.M.M.A.) and Viktoria Draganova (Swimming Pool, Sofia) at Swimming Pool. The dinner served as a conceptual, spacial and relational arrangement as well as a vehicle to introduce the artistic and curatorial practices of the invited, focusing on the question how we create, organize and relate to collective space. Both artists participate in artistic collectives and run project spaces. Since 2013, Gina co-organizes Taylor Macklin in Zurich. Lorenzo co-founded The Institute for Endotic Research – TIER, which is now located in Berlin. He is also part of the Miracle Workers Collective representing Finland in the Venice Biennale 2019. Also, “In Her Space”, a roaming program run by E.M.M.A. and curator Veronica Valentini, and the reason why Lorenzo and Gina are in Sofia, is moved by the idea to create free-learning moments through encountering new contexts and contents.
Installation view from “In Her Place: Lorenzo Sandoval and Gina Folly” at Swimming Pool, 2019
Installation view from “In Her Place: Lorenzo Sandoval and Gina Folly” at Swimming Pool, 2019
Lorenzo Sandoval, Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain) n.I, 2019. Detai
Lorenzo Sandoval, Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain) n.I, 2019. Detai
Lorenzo Sandoval, Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain) n. II., 2019. Mixed technique
Lorenzo Sandoval, Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain) n. II, 2019. Detail
Installation view from “In Her Place: Lorenzo Sandoval and Gina Folly” at Swimming Pool, 2019
Installation view from “In Her Place: Lorenzo Sandoval and Gina Folly” at Swimming Pool, 2019
Gina Folly, TRAP I, 2019. Fruit plastic basket, wheels, artificial orchids, specified cardboard
Gina Folly, TRAP IV, 2019. Fruit plastic basket, printed fabric, specified cardboard, plug, night light, lock
Gina Folly, TRAP II, 2019. Fruit plastic basket, wheels, mirror, dice, specified cardboard, metal angle
Gina Folly, TRAP III, 2019. Fruit plastic basket, wheels, various coins, specified cardboard, cable ties, lock
Gina Folly, TRAP V, 2019. Fruit plastic basket, Bulgarian horoscope newspaper, light, specified cardboard, metal angle
Gina Folly, TRAP V, 2019. Fruit plastic basket, Bulgarian horoscope newspaper, light, specified cardboard, metal angle
Lorenzo Sandoval, Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain) n. II, 2019. Mixed technique
Lorenzo Sandoval, Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain) n. II, 2019. Mixed technique
Lorenzo Sandoval, Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain) n. II, 2019. Mixed technique
Lorenzo Sandoval, Shadow Writing (Taking a Fragment of A Mountain) n. II, 2019. Mixed technique
Lorenzo Sandoval, Display for Edible Scultures, 2019. Mixed technique
Lorenzo Sandoval, Display for Edible Scultures, 2019. Mixed technique
Gina Folly, I cry (Night After Night), 2019. Transmitter, cable, bulb, 5:05 a love song Egyptian Lover translated in morse code
