Isabelle Andriessen (NL)
Resilient Bodies
30/9-23/10 2016

Curator: Lavinia Jannesson & Sofia Wickman

In this show Isabelle Andriessen introduces a new series of sculptures in which decay and the bodily relation with the Anthropocene1 as posthuman scenario is the main subject. In Resilient Bodies the artist presents an uncanny landscape inspired by the toxicities we spill into our environment, like oil, plastics, hormones and chemicals that do not decompose. These materials represent a shiny new world, one that removes people from the cycles of life and death, one that supersedes the troublesome, leaky, amorphous and porous demands of our ancestors, our bodies, and the earth.2 Andriessen addresses a compelling paradox between this culture’s fear of finitude and the longing for immortality that is in relation to the fabrication of resilient materials. A longing that comes along with a parade of vampires, zombies, clones and living machines—the miscellaneous undead.

Isabelle Andriessen (NL) lives and works in Amsterdam. Previous solo exhibitions include, Protobodies, CINNNAMON, Rotterdam and The Mesh; strange strangers between life and non-life, KHM gallery, Malmö. She has participated in numerous of group exhibitions including, Hybrid Modus,Bredelar (DE); The Hot Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen (DK); Architecture of the Senses, New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen (DK). In January 2017 Andriessen will start the artist in residency program at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (NL).

1. Geological epoch defined by human impact on the environment
2. Life and Death in the Anthropocene by Heather Davis

www.isabelleandriessen.com

Photo: Raffaele Piano