Coronation at Horse and Pony Fine Arts, Berlin

 

Thomas Yeomans, Bloom and Creep, HD Video,
9’25“,
2018
Thomas Yeomans, Bloom and Creep, HD Video,
9’25“,
2018
Thomas Yeomans, Bloom and Creep, HD Video,
9’25“,
2018
Installation view
Installation view
Thomas Yeomans, Royal America, Digital image on light box, 677x381mm, 2017
Thomas Yeomans, Queer Sigil, Sigil designed by Joseph Morgan Schofield, Digital image on light box, 677x381mm, 2017
Thomas Yeomans, Antifa, Digital image on light box, 677x381mm, 2017
Thomas Yeomans, United Federation of Planets, Digital image on light box, 677x381mm, 2017
Thomas Yeomans, Imperial War Flag of British Fascism, Digital image on light box, 677x381mm, 2017
Installation view
Valinia Svoronou, Home as Office, HD video, 3’42”, 2018
Installation view
Valinia Svoronou, Ornament Bearer 2, sewn vegan leather, foam, dimensions variable, 2018
Valinia Svoronou, Home as Office, HD video, 3’42”, 2018
Valinia Svoronou, cigarettes, coloured 3D prints, dimensions variable, 2016
Installation view
Khaled Barakeh, The Shake – Materialising Distance Memory Management, Videos HD, 1’12”, 2013
Khaled Barakeh, The Shake – Materialising Distance Memory Management, Videos HD, 1’12”, 2013
Beth Collar, cloaked output vol. 1: Spirals of Focus, HD Video, sound, 14’35”, 2018
Beth Collar, cloaked output vol. 1: Spirals of Focus, HD Video, sound, 14’35”, 2018
Beth Collar, cloaked output vol. 1: Spirals of Focus, HD Video, sound, 14’35”, 2018
Sandra Mujinga, Shawl (Elephant Ears #1,2,3,6), PVC, acrylic, paint, faux leather, grommets, carabiner, glycerin, threaded rod, rod coupling, hooks, 2017
Sandra Mujinga, Shawl (Elephant Ears #1,2,3,6), PVC, acrylic, paint, faux leather, grommets, carabiner, glycerin, threaded rod, rod coupling, hooks, 2017
Sandra Mujinga, Shawl (Elephant Ears #1,2,3,6), PVC, acrylic, paint, faux leather, grommets, carabiner, glycerin, threaded rod, rod coupling, hooks, 2017
Sandra Mujinga, Shawl (Elephant Ears #1,2,3,6), PVC, acrylic, paint, faux leather, grommets, carabiner, glycerin, threaded rod, rod coupling, hooks, 2017
Sandra Mujinga, Shawl (Elephant Ears #1,2,3,6), PVC, acrylic, paint, faux leather, grommets, carabiner, glycerin, threaded rod, rod coupling, hooks, 2017
Sandra Mujinga, Shawl (Elephant Ears #1,2,3,6), PVC, acrylic, paint, faux leather, grommets, carabiner, glycerin, threaded rod, rod coupling, hooks, 2017

Coronation

Horse and Pony Fine Arts, Berlin

Khaled Barakeh, Beth Collar, Sandra Mujinga, Valinia Svoronou, Thomas Yeomans

Curated by Àngels Miralda

January 29 – February 18, 2018

Photography by Michael Rocco Ruglio-Misurell

 

This exhibition is about the disjuncture of our times.

Worlds that exist parallel to each other.

A unique sense of the contemporary, lateral truths in inconsistent layers.

Somewhere between nostalgia and hope, lies our special temporality which we always seem to be attempting to escape. Apocalyptic visions of our future crowd contemporary theory while nostalgic historical futurisms substantially proliferate. A 90’s utopian naiveté and Cold War science fiction use our own failures to describe worlds that are simultaneously awake.

Historical re-enactment, appropriation, and gesture re-think our relationship with the past and our own identities. History and heritage become a refuge from daily trials. Brands act as standard, national symbols, and create legacy. From a Holloway pub to corporate advertisement, flags and standards from the Middle Age continue to conjure mass emotion.

Gaps and fissures, cracks and chasms, inconsistency and divergence. All seething and alive.