2013/14 - LISTE 18 | The young art fair in Basel

Ibid.0/4/1Ibid.Magnus Edensvard35 Hoxton SquareGB-London N1 6NNT +44 20 7998 7902M 44 75 4031 8347info@ibidprojects.comwww.ibidprojects.comSolo Show at LISTE:Rallou Panagiotou, 1978, GROther Artists of the Gallery:David Adamo, USJānis Avotiņš, LVRoss Chisholm, UKLouise Despont, USWilliam Hunt, UKAmir Mogharabi, USChristopher Orr, UKMichael Portnoy, USOlivier Richon, CHRallou PanagiotouThe National, 2012Marble, felt,leatherette, wood,steel brackets32 × 44 × 33 cmRallou PanagiotouLiquid Degrade, 2010Marble, metal, paint46 × 310 × 100 cmRallou PanagiotouEyeliner (dramatic),2013Black marble, inkjetprint in leatherette,wood, iron, spraypaint, bronze tubes45 × 88 × 30 cm100 / 101Rallou Panagiotou (b. 1978, Athens, livesand works in Glasgow) creates sculpturalassemblages and installations that comeforth as series of composite topologies,where traces of objects, activity or gestureare converted into architectural fractions.Selecting, reconstructing and associatingfragments of cultural environments,from holiday resorts to museum spatialarrangements to self-ornamentation adverts,Rallou Panagiotou’s work is concernedwith codes of display in relation to thepreservation of power and shifts of culturalvalue.In her practice, the immediacy of specificbuilt environments – a goth club,an archaeology museum, an abandonedsummer house, a plumber’s shop window –is linked with Rem Koolhaas’ notionof ‘junkspace’: that which remains aftermodernization has run its course. In RallouPanagiotou’s work there is an assimilationand transformation, through a syntheticsculptural process, of the proxemics, visualdexterity, temperature and tactilityof sensory reality, shifting from facadesto details of walls to utility objects.Perceived as relics, as constituted byfatigued objecthood, certain surroundingsare beheld to convey an almost psychotropiceffect between memory and desire,pauses in production and social reverie.The subversion of Modernism into symbol,its blend into pop culture and the deactivationof tradition are notions presentin Rallou Panagiotou’s work, markedin charged punctuations. The black marblehorizontal line in her work Eyeliner(dramatic), 2013, pays a rotated homageto the ‘continuous lines’ of ConstantinBrancusi. Reconstructed fencing wire,vinyl-covered surfaces, casts of figs, cutfingergloves carved from black marble.Each act as signifiers of real spacesas well as of mythologies of history and thepresent, of the endogenous, of identityand its representation.