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In this joint sculpture exhibition, Irene Pouliassi and Pol Wah Tse repurpose everyday objects as newly imagined entities that inhabit an installation-torn, wallpapered room.
Both artists are interested in ideas around the abject and the enduring primal instincts of bodily attraction and disgust. If we consider how milk represents ideas of familiarity and comfort, and how this notion is reversed when it spoils, we can understand how the works grapple with this relationship, exploring the space between the familiar and the uncanny.
Pol Wah Tse's works revolve around his fascination with the parapsychological. In his large and seemingly abstract sculptures, he is creating patterns that he describes as rationalizing the unknown. He makes works like maps of the mind and states that the gaps in the work are where the irrational or paranormal can seep in. The idea of multiple, conflicting truths existing alongside each other, is something that he sees as enabled by those same pattern-seeking tendencies.
Irene Pouliassi is a sculptor and interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans themes of transformation, identity politics, intersectionality, and tribalistic behaviours.
Raised between Athens and Corfu her work reflects a folk aesthetic that can be both austere and riotous. Her sculptures are reconfigurations taking things we recognize, the ephemera of the every day, such as abandoned trainers or hair extensions, and turning them into new forms. Her creations seek to reinvent ontologies destabilizing a type of anthropocentrism.
Information
Private View: Thursday 20th October 2022, 6-9pm
Dates: 21st - 31st October
Opening Times: Thursday - Sunday, 12:00 - 17:00
Location: Bomb Factory South Gallery, Unit G13 (Lots Road Entrance), The Plaza, 535 Kings
Road, London, SW10 0SZ
Transport: Overground - Imperial Wharf, District Line - Fulham Broadway
Contact: info@bombfactory.org.uk