Month: December 2021
01.12.21 –
01.02.22
Deep Dive
Pradiauto is pleased to present "Deep Dive", the first exhibition in the space dedicated to two London-based artists. Karolina Dworska (1997, Rzeszów, Poland) is a graduate from Goldsmiths University and this year has been awarded the New Contemporaries prize —the UK's leading support network for emerging art practices— and her most recent work will be shown in conversation with the painting of Kin-Ting Li, (1991, Hong Kong, China) a 2019 graduate of the Slade School of Fine Arts, London.
The exhibition "Deep Dive" delves into the work of these two artists and reclaims the world of dreams and the amorphous as a place of pure potency. The title of this proposal refers or alludes to that inner, intimate and personal dive that takes place during sleep. Both artists allow themselves to be absorbed in a dreamlike tunnel of illogical forms and dismembered bodies, elements that they then incorporate as part of their artistic imaginary. They both enter, from very different processes, into places full of viscosity, fragile fantasy and agitated dreams, carrying out a dual exercise of respect for fantasy and memory.
In dialogue with this project, Pradiauto presents a selection of drawings by Javier Chozas, who lives and works in Madrid. The artist, who also graduated from Goldsmiths in 2018, shows on this occasion a selection of works on paper and resin reliefs. Pradiauto seeks to recognise his work in the field of drawing and the importance of the line in a work often identified with sculpture.
Curated together with Vera Martín Zelich
The exhibition "Deep Dive" delves into the work of these two artists and reclaims the world of dreams and the amorphous as a place of pure potency. The title of this proposal refers or alludes to that inner, intimate and personal dive that takes place during sleep. Both artists allow themselves to be absorbed in a dreamlike tunnel of illogical forms and dismembered bodies, elements that they then incorporate as part of their artistic imaginary. They both enter, from very different processes, into places full of viscosity, fragile fantasy and agitated dreams, carrying out a dual exercise of respect for fantasy and memory.
In dialogue with this project, Pradiauto presents a selection of drawings by Javier Chozas, who lives and works in Madrid. The artist, who also graduated from Goldsmiths in 2018, shows on this occasion a selection of works on paper and resin reliefs. Pradiauto seeks to recognise his work in the field of drawing and the importance of the line in a work often identified with sculpture.
Curated together with Vera Martín Zelich
Karolina Dworska
Karolina Dworska (B. 1997, Rzeszów, Poland) is a Polish artist living and working in London, UK. She graduated from BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2020, followed by a year-long Fine Art Junior Fellowship at the University. In 2021 she was one of the artists selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in London, Madrid and Seoul, and featured in numerous international publications, including Sztuka i Dokumentacja and El País, as well as Time Out Magazine.
Karolina Dworska’s multidisciplinary practice explores dreams, mythologies and liminal fantasy spaces, situated between the unconscious and reality. Littered with surreal motifs and mysterious inhabitants, her dreamscapes examine the strangeness, abject horror as well as the euphoria of corporeal existence. Desire and longing are also at the core of her work.
She explores the connection between recurring dreams and mythological allegory, and how the seemingly private, internal dream space can be externalised to connect to contemporary narratives and anxieties. Deeply intertextual, her work interweaves folklore, science fiction and the everyday, reconfigured through the meditative lens of dreaming. Dworska utilises textile mediums, in particular rug-tufting, a technique in which she hand constructs pictorial rugs, as well as using machine knitting and elements of sculpture to devise her surreal vision.
Karolina Dworska’s multidisciplinary practice explores dreams, mythologies and liminal fantasy spaces, situated between the unconscious and reality. Littered with surreal motifs and mysterious inhabitants, her dreamscapes examine the strangeness, abject horror as well as the euphoria of corporeal existence. Desire and longing are also at the core of her work.
She explores the connection between recurring dreams and mythological allegory, and how the seemingly private, internal dream space can be externalised to connect to contemporary narratives and anxieties. Deeply intertextual, her work interweaves folklore, science fiction and the everyday, reconfigured through the meditative lens of dreaming. Dworska utilises textile mediums, in particular rug-tufting, a technique in which she hand constructs pictorial rugs, as well as using machine knitting and elements of sculpture to devise her surreal vision.
Kin-Ting Li
(Hong Kong, 1991) attempts, through her painting practice, to create new forms and address the subjectivity of interpretation. Through interlocking perspectives and shifting forms, the paintings are situated within a space filled with various forms of fictional construction. The observation of everyday life gives rise to a visual composite of textures, organic structures and objects simplified into almost symbolic forms.
Javier Chozas
(Madrid, 1972) completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University in August 2018. He has also completed an MFA at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid and holds a degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture of Madrid. His work has been exhibited at the Tenderpixel gallery in London, La Casa Encendida, Matadero and Tabacalera (Madrid), Würth Museum (La Rioja), P60 (Amstelveen), Kunsthaus Bethanien (Berlin), La Panacée (Montpellier) and Bólit (Girone), among others. He has published his first essay, Digital Time. Narcissos narcotizados, in 2014. He writes regularly for BritEs Magazine.