Peres Projects


Javier Peres is pleased to open two shows this Saturday, September 29th, 7 – 10PM Followed by a party in the BLAME CANADA Installation with bar hosted by BASSO and DJ set by YOUR BODY and SWEAT (rio/peres) Agathe SNOW: I Dont Know But I Been Told, Eskimo Pussy Is Mighty Cold Bruce LABRUCE and Terence KOH: BLAME CANADA Peres Projects Berlin presents Agathe Snow in her first Berlin solo exhibition “I Don’t Know But I’ve Been Told, Eskimo Pussy Is Mighty Cold”. The artist will present a large-scale sculptural installation, her largest and most ambitious to date. Agathe Snow (b. 1980, Corsica) lives and works in NYC and will be present for the opening. Snow’s work has been recently reviewed in the New York Times, Artnet.com, The International Herald Tribune, V Magazine, Paper Magazine, and New York Magazine. In our new first floor exhibition space we present a collaboration between Terence KOH and Bruce LABRUCE: BLAME CANADA. “When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard to put out. The tender boughs of innocence burn first, and the wind rises, and then all goodness is in jeopardy.” – The Log Lady, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Welcome to an installation of degenerate art consisting of horizontal glory holes, cocks coming down from the ceiling and up from the floor like stalactites and stalagmites. After all, why should glory holes be restricted to the vertical axis? That’s strictly for the birds ˆ and Republican Senators. Combining these two ideas, Blame Canada was born. After all, the US makes a habit of blaming Canada for a variety of nasty things: a porous border, lax immigration policies, Communist tendencies, multiculturalism, gayness (gay marriage is legal in Canada), Celine Dion∑ so why not give them what they want: a scapegoat, a whipping boy, a lapdog, a masochist, a Judas, a boot-licker, a cocksucker, a punk. In fact, why not give them two – Terrence Koh and Bruce LaBruce ˆ two of the biggest faggots this side of Elton John.

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    • Camilla Løw Broken Windows


    Camilla Løw
    Broken Windows

    29/9 – 20/10
    Preview 28/9, 5 – 9 pm
    Bragegatan 15, Malmö, Sweden

    We are pleased to start the autumn season with Norwegian artist
    Camilla Løw.
    Broken Windows is the second show by Løw at ELASTIC, and for this
    show Løw will present a series of new sculptures
    made of painted wood and concrete blocks.

    Løw is showing extensivly internationally, and is one of four young
    Norwegian artists nominated for the new Statoil
    Contemporary Art Prize, announced in November*. Upcoming shows
    include: “Language of Vision”, Middlesbrough Institute
    of Modern Art, Middlesbourgh (group) and Sutton Lane, London (solo).

    Previous solo shows include: 2006 “Henriette Grahnert / Camilla Løw”,
    Sutton Lane – Paris, 2005 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco.

    Group shows include: “DUMP: Postmodern Sculpture in the Dissolved
    Field”, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
    “How to Improve the World – British Art 1946-2006”, Hayward Gallery,
    London, “Try again. Fail again. Fail better”, MOMENTUM,
    Galleri F15, Moss, Norway

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    • The Apartment Gallery – Berlin



    The Apartment Gallery – Berlin

    Designer and artist Helle Mardahl exhibits a royal orgy of consumption in
    the Apartment Gallery in Berlin 29th of September 2007

    Private view on the 27th of September 2007, 7PM-10PM

    A shambles of dreams, orgies, profusion and staging of the self have gathered in
    a gigantic sculptural chandelier, which is the centre point of the exhibition.
    The chandelier encompasses all the ups and downs of every day life and
    subsequently answers the question, which is also the title of the exhibition:
    What does not live inside?

    The exhibition in the 150m2 large space facing towards Alexanderplatz is a
    complete installation. Wall prints, collages and sculptures gives the impression of
    a decadent and lavish upper class milieu – but the seemingly polished surface
    clashes with the contrary of an autonomous underworld of wickedness, revolt
    and pop culture that interferes with the royal atmosphere. Ten different personas
    are picked out of the chandeliers symbolic diversity and these sculptural
    individuals are among others the transsexual king, the artist herself as an
    egoistical queen, the autonomous prince and the voyeuristic maid – all iconic
    characters with conflicting motives and inner obsessions.

    Helle Mardahl (born 1976) combines art and graphic fashion design. She is
    educated in fashion design from the prestigious institution Central Saint Martins,
    London and was awarded “Statens Kunstfonds” (the state art fond) a 3year
    working grant, providing her with the opportunity to work in the field between
    fashion, sculpture and installation. She is inspired by her background in fashion
    and sees fashion as a lifestyle and a reflection on society’s need. She is also
    highly fascinated by the human individual, our staging of the self and our
    superficial culture.
    Art for her is a free space where she can connect these elements disregarding
    a final function or use. The graphical figure is liberated and blends into the physical
    figure – both surface and depth of the whole project is Helle’s extreme need to be
    able to express her self aesthetically.

    The exhibition will run from the 29th of September to the 20st of October 2007.

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