The Last Terminal: Reflections on the Coming Apocalypse (Volume 3, Part 4: Dormitorium) at Rib, Rotterdam

Lisa Ivory (2024–2025)
Paintings

Lisa 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 presented What The Goat Saw, Outside Love, A Summer Evening.

In Part 4: Dormitorium, we present a new series of painting.

gerlach en koop (2024–)

Om zes uur?


Slapen.

How unpredictable is sleep. It is not a skill you can acquire or learn. The sleepless are powerless. Sleep is granted, it just cannot be forced. The only thing you can do is imitate your own sleeping body. Restage the conditions of the night before when it worked – same position, same routine – hoping that at some point the copy will again be convincing enough to merge with the original.

In 2020 gerlach en koop displayed works by other artists in an exhibition titled Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich Schlafe. at the GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen, Germany. In this exhibition they tried to approach the elusive phenomenon that is sleep from both sides, with works that either correspond to the disintegration of falling asleep or the reintegration of waking up.

Throughout the year a restaging of this rather unusual solo-exhibition will unfold in Rib. What was stretched out in space in Bremen will be stretched out in time in Rotterdam. Small gatherings of works each time, four or five, six at the most. Trying to find a position that worked before, trying to merge with the original, like an insomniac.

Find the exhibition text (pdf) for Om zes uur? Slapen by gerlach en koop and Lisa Ivory Paintings here.

https://www.ribrib.nl/downloads/RIB_exhibition_handout_2024_Vol3_Part4.pdf