Artist: Linda Semadeni
Exhibition title: Scripts
Venue: KIRCHGASSE, Steckborn, Switzerland
Date: April 18 – June 13, 2020
Photography: Björn Allemann / images copyright and courtesy of the artist and KIRCHGASSE, Steckborn
Eyes that roll, nudge, pause, flicker and blink. This process is persistently prolonged, repeated and, as such, cannot be consciously controlled.
Linda Semadeni’s work demands that viewers look more intently in order to develop an awareness of processes and structures that naturally accompany our actions and thinking because they are learned, incorporated or inscribed.
Mental and physical persistence serves here as a course of action. Combined with a fascination that picks up on stringencies, certainties, restrictions and dogmas, exposing and questioning them, Linda Semadeni turns the tables and takes it upon herself to over- and re-write these. Program or be programmed.
She transfers these processes to the uncanny before they become controllable and autonomous. She nudges, derails, changes lanes. Spaces open up and zones of disorder and rearrangement emerge; these move on a narrow line and in an interplay between disinhibition and control. They culminate in works that display lively excerpts from a rush of created possibilities and trigger consternation.
Scripts is Linda Semadeni’s first solo exhibition in Kirchgasse. Most recently, her work has been presented at Schloss (Oslo), Up State (Zurich), Karma International (Zurich), Shanaynay (Paris) and Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur.
Linda Semadeni, SCRIPTS, Installation view. Not titled yet, 2020, Video loop (duration: 01:02 min) / Follow your nose, 2020, Gouache, ink, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 170 cm
Linda Semadeni, Not titled yet, 2020, Video loop (duration: 01:02 min)
Linda Semadeni, Model, 2019, PVC, 9 x 7 x 7cm
Linda Semadeni, SCRIPTS, Installation view. Model, 2019, PVC, 9 x 7 x 7cm
Linda Semadeni, SCRIPTS, Installation view. Sie liegen und hängen neben uns und wir sehen durch sie durch, 2020, Gouache, marker, ink, oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm / Not titled yet, 2020, Diptych, Gouache, ink, marker on canvas, 2 x (200 x 170cm)
Linda Semadeni, Not titled yet, 2020, Diptych, Gouache, ink, marker on canvas, 2 x (200 x 170cm)
Linda Semadeni, untitled, 2019, Ink, marker, pencil on paper, 100 x 140cm
Linda Semadeni, SCRIPTS, Installation view. Sie liegen und hängen neben uns und wir sehen durch sie durch, 2020, Gouache, marker, ink, oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm / Not titled yet, 2020, Video loop (duration: 01:02 min)
Linda Semadeni, untitled, 2020, Marker on fabric, 100 x 110 cm
Linda Semadeni, Sie liegen und hängen neben uns und wir sehen durch sie durch, 2020, Gouache, marker, ink, oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm
Linda Semadeni, SCRIPTS, Installation view. Erinnerung ans Hirn, 2019, Marker on photo paper, 42 x 59.5 cm / untitled, 2019, Ink, marker, pencil on paper, 100 x 140cm / Not titled yet, 2020, Video loop (duration: 01:02 min) / Follow your nose, 2020, Gouache, ink, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 170 cm
Linda Semadeni, Erinnerung ans Hirn, 2019, Marker on photo paper, 42 x 59.5 cm
Linda Semadeni, Follow your nose, 2020, Gouache, ink, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 170 cm
Linda Semadeni, SCRIPTS, Installation view
