CLARE KENNY

16 Oct-22 Nov 2013

Overview

Vitrine presents a solo show of new work by Basel-based artist Clare Kenny; the gallery’s inaugural exhibition in the new ground floor premises. Kenny creates work that is a hybrid of photography and sculpture. Often using photographic imagery as a means of navigation or a strategy to inform a three-dimensional piece, she explores slippages between materiality and subject matter. Form and content reflect a concern with the nebulous divide between fact and fiction. Real and fabricated memories of the artist's life are recorded and fed into the images and materials that comprise each work. Images are manipulated in stages, often abstracting or duplicating details in an attempt to reveal new meaning or question ideas on authenticity. Following her recent residency in Paris at Cite des Artes, her solo show at Vitrine will be shaped around new work developed over this period and since.