38/50 Josh Wright & & Guillaume Vandame

22 Sep-27 Sep 2015

Overview

Josh Wright & Guillaume Vandame join forces at fig-2, for their first solo exhibition, transforming the premises into an active gym with classes led by personal trainers, yoga teachers and invited artists. Coding a space for physical activity within a site for art in referencing Claes Oldenburg’s soft hard sculptures as well as Carl Andre’s minimal aesthetic and Christo and Jean-Claude’s collaborative, environmental and site specific approach, Wright & Vandame introduce a week of physical and mental stimuli. Much like Allan Kaprow’s happenings, the duo intertwines artistic input with physical engagement, and questions the body’s potential to transmit notions of identity, gender orientation and character. Inviting artists such as Karimah Ashadu, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Adham Faramawy to respond to the popular language and practice generated by gym culture, Wright & Vandame question our contemporary body image aesthetics and provoke conflating masculine and feminine archetypes and forms.Please visit the ICA events website to book your classes.