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Sandstorms

Place: Lagos, Mexico City

Date: -

Artists: Olga Cerkasova, Isabella Fürnkäs

Works: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Rapid Eye Movement, The artist is present, La matière qui rêve

Olga Cerkasova und Isabella Fürnkäs work interdisciplinary and with a variety of media such as performance, installation, drawing and video. Both artists thematically question the body and its cultural identity and fluid interconnectivity through their work. Olga Cerkasova creates paintings and sculptures that reveal hidden and delicate desires in site-specific installations in the space. Isabella Fürnkäs plays with the intersections of the multiplicity of identities and reflects subversive notions of self-perception.

Together they initiated a specific dialogue between their works while collaborating for the first time. The studio exhibition contains sculptural details made of plaster, sand and remastered ready mades that contextually engage with the oil paintings. The paintings blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture. The hanging cut-outs made of jute mark a fluidity and fragility which can also be observed in the small sized drawings. The artists worked site specifically and also included materials found through in their cultural research while being in Mexico City.

- Press text from Sandstorms, Lagos, Mexico City (2020)

the air may have been more rarified then

and the wind cooler, the sun had

a different status, but nevertheless

it shone as it does now, fierce and remote

what mattered was to be prepared

the heights beckoned and climbing was

better than descending, gravity

seemed to lessen its hold and it was easier to see

a kind of connectedness, houses,

dusty roads where people were moving

and you could see that this place

was not the only one, nor was this city nor

this time, your heart was pounding and you thought

in vain about love, about having choices,

freedom or solace and you felt a foolish

longing to meet someone and then

you thought of the birds again, you'd

always been in awe of them, the way

they'd spread their wings at the last moment,

to set sail in the sky

Translation: Judith Wilkinson 

Miriam Van hee

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