Lisa Ivory (2024–2025)
Paintings
Ivory’s paintings point to an evolving story with a seemingly clear narrative arc yet the stories do not easily yield to identifications and sympathies. They undermine our certainties about where we are in relation to what we are looking at. They lead one into a painterly universe; a shadow world, a natural habitat for nudes, skeletons, and domesticated monsters.
In Part 1: Beating Death With His Own Arm, we presented two paintings titled Tourist In Your Town and Love And Communication.
In Part 2: Errors, we presented three new paintings titled Foal Phantom, Hard Times, Call It Something Nice. All made in 2023.
In Part 3: The Recipient, we present three new works by the British artist Lisa Ivory (1966, London).
gerlach en koop (2024–)
Om vijf uur?
Slapen.
Sleeping can neither be learnt nor mastered. It’s an unpredictable force that cannot be forced. The sleepless are also powerless. Sleep is granted. The only thing one can do is imitate one’s own sleeping body, to restage the night before, hoping that at some point the copy will again be convincing enough to merge with the original—and that is when you fall …
In 2020 gerlach en koop displayed works by other artists in an exhibition approaching sleep at the GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen, Germany. During the year a faltered restaging of this unusual solo-exhibition will unfold in the space of Rib. A few works at a time, two, three, maybe four. A full restaging will follow, later on, in a somewhat larger space. Not all works exhibited in Bremen will be exhibited in Rotterdam however, and the ones that are will be changed by the very act of restaging.
This third display will bring together three artworks and an artefact in an exhibition that also includes other works. All three have an author, certainly, we know the names—Kasper Bosmans, Jean-Luc Moulène, Bojan Šarčević—and all three have been made by someone who is not the author, we also know most of these names1 … but let’s forget names for now. We propose to consider the artworks for what they are, to look at them and look again, to take the time to see how they relate to each other, to the architecture, to the previous exhibitions in the space and to the darkness surrounding them that we have so carefully tried to protect and preserve.
Find the exhibition text (pdf) for Om vijf uur? Slapen by gerlach en koop and Lisa Ivory Paintings here.
https://www.ribrib.nl/downloads/RIB_exhibition_handout_2024_Vol3_Part3.pdf
