Highlights of the show include :
Everything Happens Once - an installation created by Neudecker as guest artist at CERN. She was inspired by the apparent contradiction of the high-tech scientific research and the appearance of the various experiments.
Nothing Will Stay the Same - a reimagining of the Arctic seascapes of painter William Bradford in a glass tank. Neudecker’s tanks use the visual effects created by glass and water to alter the perception of the foreground, midground and background of the piece.
Afterlife - which was was made after a trip on a ship to South West Greenland and is a visual reimagining of Casper David Friedrich’s The Sea of Ice which shows a shipwreck in the Arctic; the film explores the power of ice, mountains and sky; mirrored in the sea.
Plastic Vanitas is a series of vivid photographs of objects from the Museum of Design in Plastics. The images are Inspired by the Dutch still life painters of the 17th century, Vanitas artists, who created paintings of objects to encourage the viewer to consider mortality and to repent. Neudecker’s still lifes raise questions about the role of plastic, sustainability, climate change and the challenges of the world’s dwindling resources.
Other works in the gallery include new digital drawings onto photos created in lockdown, an archive of arctic images and drawings related to deep sea exploration.
A Thousand Ghosts is an installation outside in Hestercombe Gardens. The hand-crafted masts of this ‘submerged’ ship are inspired by Britain’s naval history and the trees that were felled to make ships. The artist explores the way we look at our surroundings and the events and ideas that have shaped our landscape, including centuries of shipbuilding.
Mariele Neudecker’s new book ‘SEDIMENT’, edited by Greer Crawley, designed by Herman Lelie & Stefania Bonelli and published by Anomie Publishing, London, will be launched at an ‘In Conversation’ with Tim Martin and Mariele Neudecker on 17th September, 2-4pm.
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