Artist: Louisa Gagliardi
Exhibition title: On a day like this
Venue: Plymouth Rock, Zürich, Switzerland
Date: February – April, 2018
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Plymouth Rock, Zürich
In layers and folds, canopies, crusts and perceptive depictions Louisa builds images and narratives of the daily. Her work is about moments, captured before they shift, frozen before they have stabilized into their final form. Before the rain ruins a perfect picnic. Before we suffocate the natural world completely. After we’ve aged one more second, but not a point more. Here she expands into the third dimension, but it’s been there. Or, rather, these new works are drawings as well. Between sculpture and painting is a visualized sameness, physical objects just conspicuous enough. The trace of the body’s creation hides behind a digital output. Rendering is drawing. Sewing is drawing. Lines cross material real and projected. They’re tied together by someone.
—Mitchell Anderson
Louisa Gagliardi, On a day like this, 2018, exhibition view, Plymouth Rock, Zürich
Louisa Gagliardi, On a day like this, 2018, exhibition view, Plymouth Rock, Zürich
Louisa Gagliardi, Restes (detail), 2018, tule, dimensions variable
Louisa Gagliardi, On a day like this, 2018, exhibition view, Plymouth Rock, Zürich
Louisa Gagliardi, Morning Glory, 2018, gel medium and ink on PVC, 115 x 190 cm
Louisa Gagliardi, Morning Glory, (detail), 2018, gel medium and ink on PVC, 115 x 190 cm
Louisa Gagliardi, Restes, 2018, tule, dimensions variable
Louisa Gagliardi, Restes (detail), 2018, tule, dimensions variable
Louisa Gagliardi, Restes (detail), 2018, tule, dimensions variable
Louisa Gagliardi, Restes (detail), 2018, tule, dimensions variable
Louisa Gagliardi, Restes (detail), 2018, tule, dimensions variable
Louisa Gagliardi, Souvenirs, 2018, gel medium and ink on PVC, 74 x 115 cm
Louisa Gagliardi, Souvenirs, (detail), 2018, gel medium and ink on PVC, 74 x 115 cm
Louisa Gagliardi, Souvenirs, (detail), 2018, gel medium and ink on PVC, 74 x 115 cm
Louisa Gagliardi, Restes (detail), 2018, tule, dimensions variable
Louisa Gagliardi, Restes (detail), 2018, tule, dimensions variable
