Ella C Bernard

Opening 15.2.2024, 18:00
16.2. - 28.3.2024

Artist’s first solo exhibition in Prague, Czech Republic

Curator: Gabriela Anco

Garage Gallery
Vítkova 7a
Praha - Karlín 186 00
Czech Republic

Set around a projected four-cornered street block that one can navigate, the exhibition resembles a stroll through an eerie yet familiar neighborhood. Built as a geographic relief, works spring up within designated spaces, conveying with their presence various perceptions of weight, fluidity, transparency, durability, resistance and fragility.  Looking for the liminality of the precise point of balance sustaining an in-between, the artist acts as an alchemist of sorts and combines elements of contrasting qualities, which in turn pull in perfectly orchestrated directions.

At various corners, oversized medallions hang oddly while a concrete fountain crowned with a ceramic sculpture and adorned by a skirt of plastic bins stands in a puddle of water. Further down, painted cardboard compositions lean casually on walls, and assembled installations of diverse construction material residues are suspended from the ceilings. At the rear, in what seems like an underground passageway, a closed-circuit pipe structure emerges from a poured concrete bed, resonating with tangible sounds of veiled sources. Like the buds of an underground network, the objects in the show point to an invisible, yet apprehended human aura, moulded around the traces we press into our environment.