Artist: Michael Bell-Smith
Exhibition title: The Diet
Venue: Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, US
Date: April 2 – May 28, 2016
Photography: Robert Wedemeyer, all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
Artists: Mo Abd-Ulla, Eglė Budvytytė, Tanya Busse, Victoria Durnak, Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, Berglind Jona Hlynsdóttir, Saulius Leonavičius & Vida Strasevičiūtė, Robertas Narkus, Augustas Serapinas, Kristin Tårnesvik
Exhibition title: Climbing Invisible Structures. Ritualized Disciplinary Practices in Social Life (Part 2: Nida)
Organised by: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
Venue: VAA Nida Art Colony, Neringa, Lithuania
Date: May 21 – June 19, 2016
Photography: Andrej Vasilenko, all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
Artists: Tanya Busse, Victoria Durnak, Saulius Leonavičius & Vida Strasevičiūtė, Robertas Narkus, Kristin Tårnesvik
Exhibition title: Climbing Invisible Structures. Ritualized Disciplinary Practices in Social Life (Part 1: Vilnius)
Organized by: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
Venue: Underground Water Reservoir, Vilnius, Lithuania
Date: April 29 – May 15, 2016
Photography: Andrej Vasilenko, all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
Video by: Tobias Kaspar
Title: Back Row
Curated by: Domenico de Chirico
Screening: May 31 – June 21, 2016
Year: 2016
Duration: 21’02”
Back Row (2016) is with Hydra Life (2013) and Black Noire (2014) part of the Surface Apparent trilogy which was produced and directed by Tobias Kaspar from 2013 to 2016. Facial cream, hotel bathroom, bathrobe, socks, red face, youth, concept store, fashion boutique, textile, architecture, skin, mannequins, chains, surface, dry cleaning steam, towels, hands, jewellery, Berlin Rom, Rio de Janeiro.
Back Row has been filmed in a professional dry cleaning space in Rio de Janeiro and Rome. The camera follows closely a model working with the staff of the dry cleaning, ironing, steaming, washing, hanging and folding sheets … the camera moves on a micro level between textile, architecture and skin surfaces hardly ever offering an overall glimps of the space, rather detecting it through scapel a like camera drives through the enire scenario, cutting and cropping space and material.
Courtesy: Back Row (2016) courtesy Tobias Kaspar, Galerie Peter Kilchmann and Silberkuppe Berlin