MIXTAPE
Pi Artworks
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Centred around the notion of an artistic family - with Pi Artworks at its core - the works in this exhibition have been nominated by the gallery’s own UK artists and team. Featuring sculpture, textile, photography, film, painting and performance, the show brings together a unique collection of works by emerging and non-represented artists in our London space. The result being an assortment, or 'Mixtape', that celebrates artmaking unrestrained by medium, geography, or career.
It is a twist on the typical group show that re affirms a commitment to supporting emerging and exciting talent.
While the exhibition undoubtedly comprises an eclectic mix of works, drawn together through circumstance rather than theme, connections inevitably begin to form between these artists. Duru Bebekoglu’s Dining Table performance sets this precedent, with the work being activated by artists and visitors as they sit, eat and converse. This notion of ‘home’ and links to domestic spaces tie neatly to Emily Murayama’s practice, who uses found objects to explore our relationship with technologies around us - both new and obsolete.
In terms of imagery, the nostalgia of Cydney Lovett Downey’s found super8 footage in contrast with Yasemin Gunhos’ digitally rendered self portrait offers deeply contrasting visions of self reflection, yet they both ask us to consider the reliability of the image and what the future of ‘aesthetics’ may be. This idea of image as historical artefact is further interrogated by the doctored photography of Niv Fridman, who by inserting himself into classical paintings of artist’s workshops, challenges the distinctions between truth and history through a distinctly queer lens.
Similarly, a captivation with textiles and natural fibres across the work of both Lea Rose Kara and Ludovica Gioscia’s practice presents alternative modes of engaging with materials. For Kara, naturally sourced wool, in contrast with alien-esque resin components, form a study in conflicting materialities, for Gioscia, through tapestry and costume collaged together from a variety of texturally rich fabrics. Visually, Dominic Beattie’s paintings use pattern and palette to the same effect. Across a range of scales, his works present a collage of competing chromatic fields to form a living, geometrically buzzing whole.
Dominic Beattie
Beattie’s work is based upon Modernist principles, specifically ideas of innovation and experimentation with abstraction, and an emphasis on materials, techniques and processes. His new works are a continuation of his exploration of colour and pattern. Often using materials that are close to hand, found materials, or more industrial spray paints and surfaces, Beattie uses non-conventional art materials as to compliment his aesthetic.
Cydney Lovett Downey
She works with both analogue filmmaking techniques, as well as traditional printmaking methods to generate artworks that utilise the language of poetry, exploring notions of existentialism, human experience and the passing of time. Collage is a vehicle she relies heavily on to do this, for instance, she splices found Super 8 and 16mm footage to create ‘film collages’, altering narratives of forgotten subjects.
Still from 'I Dream about you and I hope your happy'
Lea Rose Kara
Kara’s practice is primarily STEM-based and is grounded conceptually in biology, technology, and epistemology. She creates sculptural works which explore the intersection between Nature, Science, and Archaic Magick through materials such as silicone, bronze, wool, and found forest objects.
Awakening Truth
Ludovica Gioscia
Born and raised in Rome in the eighties, the layering of many architectural styles has become a definite influence in Gioscia's work. She draws heavily from the Baroque, the significance of alchemy in studio practice, and her large archive of wallpapers contain motifs that stem from her mother’s DIY science lab, psychedelic explosions, telepathic brains, vintage jewellery auction catalogues, Paninaro patterns, Pasolini actors, Baroque interiors, ancient Roman ruins and the Rosetta Stone.
Mad Lab Coat
Niv Fridman
Fridman’s artistic practice combines meticulous historical research with the artistic freedom to weave imaginary stories and to reveal gay and queer motifs hidden beneath the surface. He uses disguise to shed new light on archival documents and raise questions about the heterosexual point of view and the manner in which it shapes history. His works challenge the accepted differentiations between truth and fiction, past and present, reality and imagination.
Duru Bebekoglu
Known by the alias HOGİNSAN to represent her artistic identity, (inspired by her great-grandmother Suzan), Bebekoğlu's work is deeply rooted in storytelling. She considers herself a modern-day bard, using stories to evoke reactions and connect with people. Her explorations of belonging and identity often revolve around the taste of home, highlighting the unifying power of food - particularly Turkish cuisine.
Yasemin Gunhos
Gunhos’s artistic practice combines 3D modelling, video, photography, and installation to explore the fluid boundary between the real and the virtual, including different ways the virtual can be translated into our tangible reality.
Emily Murayama
Her work addresses the convergence of the domestic and personal yet ubiquitous setting of “home”, and speculative manifestations of food and ensuing human relationships to it. New and old relationships to technology old and new underlie her subject matter; in other words, the obsolescence of technology paralleled with a geriatric tendency to become the outdated party.
