A joint snapping, a straining ligament about to break, the thud of a bone breaking after a fall… this physical and threatening tension is what vibrates through Ian Waelder’s latest work, a series of works on linen and sculptures made in Mallorca, at the L21 x Fundación Camper Residency, as well as in his studio in Frankfurt am Main. Under the name Das Kniegelenk, which we can translate from German as something like ‘the knee’s joint’, his work explores movement and fragility, linked in both being a condition of the experience of being a body.

Ian Waelder (b.1993) is a Spanish-American artist living and working in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where he currently attends the class by Haegue Yang at the Städelschule. In his recent solo exhibitions, we find We feel untied, but why? (curated by Sonia Fernández Pan at Centro Párraga, Murcia, 2018), Who Would Be Interested in an Empty Parking Lot? (The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, 2018), SUEDE (L21, Mallorca, 2016) and The Noise, The Traces and Marks (LOCAL Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile, 2015). He’s also shown in two-person and group exhibitions at Ana Mas Projects (Barcelona, 2016), Galería Bacelos (Madrid, 2016), Salón (Madrid, 2015), L21 (Madrid and Mallorca, 2014-2018), Sant Andreu Contemporani (Barcelona, 2014 and 2016) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2014).

For further informations, please contact the gallery.
The exhibition is open between November 10th 2018 and January 11th 2019.
Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 10h – 18h

L21 GALLERY
Gremi de Ferrers, 25
07009 Mallorca, Spain