Ort: Kunstraum Tapir bis: 2016-10-30
Künstler: Millie Gleeson
Thema: Takt presents Millie Gleeson time will tell curated by Takt Opening: Friday, October 7th 7 – 10pm Exhibition: 08.10. – 30.10.2016 Open hours: Friday/ Sunday 4-7pm and by appointment Kunstraum Tapir | Weserstraße 11 | 10247 Berlin-Friedrivhshain time will tell Staged around a powerful female character my paintings portray figures in various guises, featured in settings that create a narrative. Their large scale attribute a goddess-like feel, synchronising with the theatricality of each scenario. I fabricate my vision through props, costume, and make-up, from which performance-based photo shoots evolve. Imbued with a dualism of a fantastical yet familiar reality. A playful act between the model and myself as photographer, explores characteristics until everything “clicks” into place. Translating the imagery through paint is an intimate exploration of my visual language through the female figure and its expression. Painting women allows me to unlock a part of myself, which I feel resides in them, becoming both a transformative and reflective process. milliegleeson.com
Ort: Kunstraum Tapir bis: 2016-09-02
Künstler: Erin DAvis
Thema: VVITREOPHOBIA Kunstraum Tapir is pleased to present VITREOPHOBIA: New Works by Erin Davis, the artist’s first solo show in Berlin. Erin’s practice examines the biological and psychological ramifications of a world constantly drenched in LED light. Through moving image and installation based media, he creates glimpses into worlds where these consequences are magnified towards a point of uncanny sensory-overstimulation. Often combining aesthetics of medical sterility and DIY underground plant grow-houses, Erin’s works take on an almost post-human presence. The viewer is continually unsure whether they are the examiner or the examined in the experiment-like environments he creates that appear visually seductive, often using strobing lights and copious amounts of reflective material, with more serious undertones. Influenced by his research of the varying implications of LED light’s unblinking glow: such as sleeplessness, laboratory experimentation, military torture, or physiological/psychological effects on plants, animals, and humans, Erin’s work perceptually and psychologically challenges the viewer. He is compelled by the ramifications of LED light in a culture that lives and breathes it. taktberlin.org/vitreophobia erindavis.net