Join us this coming Saturday, August 23 (8 - 10pm) for a viewing of Stephanie Simek's Binnenstebuiten (whole #33). This is the third viewing and serves as a casual late summer gathering... drinks, snacks and conversation provided.
Binnenstebuiten (whole #33) is new ceramic work and video installation from Stephanie Simek with accompanying score by Jordan Dykstra. |
Stephanie Simek
Binnenstebuiten (whole #33)
Sunday, August 23 (8 - 10pm)
FalseFront
4518 NE 32nd Avenue
Portland, Oregon
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| As a supplement to Stephanie Simek’s current exhibition, Binnenstebuiten (whole #33), this newsletter also highlights a selection of Simek's works from recent years. Various holes, containers, and vessels–considering the generative potential of the void... |
Untitled 2023 Silent paper, looped audio excerpt from Modern Times
12 x 7 x 36 inches |
A large, empty bag made of “silent paper” (specialty material having the appearance of ordinary brown kraft paper but makes no noise when crunched) emits a looped audio excerpt from Modern Times- the sole occurrence of Charlie Chalplin’s Tramp character vocalizing- a nonsense song that can only be contextualized by gestures from the missing film. |
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Klein Bottle Pierrot 2023 organza
34 x 32 x 10 inches
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A translucent organza Pierrot suit is formed as a Klein bottle (a 3D mathematical anomaly with no inside or outside) with its arms and legs interconnected and opening at the neck. Its signature pom-poms are within the suit. |
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wholes (1-32) 2023 terracotta 10 x 10 x 0.5 inches |
Ever-expanding container, a hyper-fractallated strawberry pot (a vessel with increasingly smaller pot-like appendages) in 32 lateral cross-sectioned pieces is displayed in its unassembled form. |
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Fractal Vise with Keystone 2024 plastic, hydrophobic silica, hydrated silica, hardware 17 x 6 x 4 inches |
Vise with fractal jaws gripping a keystone made of hydrophobic sand with an opal embedded inside. The fractal vise, a specialty piece of workshop equipment used to grip irregularly shaped objects, takes the shape of an abstracted tardigrade (an impossibly resilient microorganism that can survive even the most extreme conditions). The vise’s teeth push inward, gripping loose, malleable hydrophobic sand shaped in the form of a keystone (the final stone set in place when building an arch- it doesn’t bear any weight- its purpose is to exert outward force holding the arch in place). The keystone itself holds an opal, which is also made of silica. |
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