Office Project Room is pleased to present “From dim to clear to curve” an installation project created by Simona Barbera and Ronny Faber Dahl for the garden of Office Project Room. In the garden, two modular metal structures make up the main installation, together with fabrics cut in different forms, and a series of stacked sculptures made of composite acrylic, cement, and rubber.
By looking at the shape of different spatial architectures within the city, the installation juxtaposes surfaces that are typically used as deterrents to prevent loitering or any unnecessary holdups in spaces. Barely noticeable hostile surfaces like iron tips and jagged edges on railings, fences, stair sets and benches in places such as banks, shopping streets and official buildings, have become parts of cities’ passageways where they inhibit any irregular usage like skateboarding or sitting by shop windows. Architectures that adopt a minimalist approach have the same infringing function as the more aggressive urban designs, like the vertical leaning benches at bus stops. The installation uses the same modules and “data-sets” of railing designs and further neutralizes them, dispelling their hostile nature by turning them into sculptures that offhandedly reduce them to their bare form which, in turn, blends in with the fenced-in urban garden surroundings as a free-standing scaffold. A hand-sewn piece of cloth is wrapped around the rail, uncovering a pattern made from algorithmic computing processes of interrupted graphics. An array of hues varying from smog-color greens, to grays and purples, along with automated industrial metals resonate with our tactile memory of passing through, while all shapes become ultimately suggestive of a digitally generated composition. By recognizing the ambiguity between public urban planning and private property protection, the altered forms question the ability of designs in the commons to function as a structural grid in which bodies are blocked or moved. Because of their intrinsic duality of supposed intended function/message-in-form, these given designs fade as, the moment someone impulsively sits on top of the edge of a leaning bench, no more intention is present. Like looking past an advertising display, shifting the clear gaze and staring into the distance, which becomes curved into only mere colors and shapes.
Simona Barbera and Ronny Faber Dahl live and work in Genoa and Oslo, Norway. As duo collaboration they have shared several projects, including “If I just laid down” exhibited at the LYNX pavilion in Oslo in 2015, and “Pavement, night, light” at Edicola Radetzky in Milan, as part of SPAZI 2017. Since 2012 they have coordinated Space4235, an artist-run space based in Genoa, while since 2019 they have been working on a new digital format called ISG. Both hold a Master from The Academy of Fine Art, Oslo. Individually, they have exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in galleries and museums in Italy and abroad.
Simona’s exhibitions include: Riss(e) Zentrum (2018), Varese; Fondazione La Fabbrica Del Cioccolato(2018), Blenio Valley, Switzerland; Current Project(2018) and Assab One(2017) in Milan; Podium(2016), Noplace(2016), RAM Gallery(2016) and Henie Onstad Art Center(2009), Høvikodden in Oslo; Helicotrema at Centrale Fies, (2016), Trento; Transart Festival (2015), Bolzano; CHAN Contemporary Art Association (2014), Genoa; Litteraturfestival (2013), Moss, Norway; Lozd Biennale (2010), Poland; Su de Coucou (2010), Berlin and Villa Romana (2010) in Florence.
Ronny’s recent exhibitions include LATO (2019), Prato; La Fabbrica Del Cioccolato (2018), Blenio Valley, Switzerland; Current Project (2018), Dust Space (2017) and Nowhere Gallery (2016) in Milan; Norwegian Sculpture Biennial (2017), Noplace (2016), and Akademirommet at Kunstnernes Hus (2014) in Oslo; Surplace (2016), Varese; Sculpture Quadrennial (2016), Riga and Galleri Fisk (2014) in Bergen.
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