South likes: Céline Condorelli at Chisenhale, London

South likes: Céline Condorelli at Chisenhale, London
How to work together
Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
2 May – 22 June 2014

For her commission at Chisenhale, Céline Condorelli keeps the clean, industrial setting of the gallery seemingly intact; yet, the gallery door is gone and a window is revealed. Behind a large, semi-transparent golden curtain—a recurring form in Condorelli’s work—a peculiar environment is set up, which brings in mind a research space. The exhibition evokes a sense tranquility and perfect balance between the objects, which are, both in a formal and notional sense, related to furniture. A table fashioned from office desks, ladders and stools invites the viewer to “climb at their own risk” and redefine the exhibition space through the object, thus trusting the structural function of the work. A group of plants, carefully placed underneath a grow light emphasises the idea of organisational balance characterising Condorelli’s project. The well-calculated manner in which the works are placed becomes a platform of reflection upon matters of stability, stressing the sense of crucial structures needed to support the relationship between the object, the space and the viewer, which does not differ much from human affiliations. Turning a series of everyday objects into innovative functional constructions might just be the tangible reminder of how experiential fragments of our lives are joined together with others’, proposing new ways of relating to each other.

Marina Maniadaki

http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/exhibitions/current_exhibition.php