Month: March 2024
06.03.24 –
10.03.24
Arco Opening 2024
Pradiauto proposes a dual project with works by artists Esther Merinero and Karolina Dworska, both represented by the gallery. The stand will include new work as well as some produced between the years 2021 and 2022.
The project includes large textiles by Karolina Dworska, which continue to examine the strangeness, abject horror and euphoria of corporeal existence. Her work interweaves folklore, science fiction and the everyday, reconfigured through the meditative lens of dreaming. The internal, seemingly private dream space is externalized in his work to connect with contemporary narratives and anxieties. We propose a dialogue between these textile pieces with wall sculptures by Esther Merinero. Pigmented resin works based on an obsession with street puddles; places and images from which Merinero explores the speculative power of everyday situations and objects. In both practices, from the dream and from speculation, deep and latent desires are channeled, which materialize from fantasy, the unconscious or the irrational.
06.03 / 10.03 - Opening section at ARCOmadrid - Stand 9OP01.
The project includes large textiles by Karolina Dworska, which continue to examine the strangeness, abject horror and euphoria of corporeal existence. Her work interweaves folklore, science fiction and the everyday, reconfigured through the meditative lens of dreaming. The internal, seemingly private dream space is externalized in his work to connect with contemporary narratives and anxieties. We propose a dialogue between these textile pieces with wall sculptures by Esther Merinero. Pigmented resin works based on an obsession with street puddles; places and images from which Merinero explores the speculative power of everyday situations and objects. In both practices, from the dream and from speculation, deep and latent desires are channeled, which materialize from fantasy, the unconscious or the irrational.
06.03 / 10.03 - Opening section at ARCOmadrid - Stand 9OP01.
Esther Merinero
(1994, Madrid). She studied her BA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts and recently graduated from an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art with the support of Fundació “La Caixa”, awarding her a a fellowship for postgraduate studies. Her work has been included in international exhibitions at Dada Post (Berlin), Centre del Carme (Valencia), Space2B (Madrid), Charsoo Honar (Tehran) or Saartchi Gallery (London), amongst others. Now represented by Pradiauto (Madrid).
Esther has also given lectures and workshops internationally in institutions such as University of the Arts (London), University for the Creative Arts (Farnham) or in Espositivo Academy (Madrid), and has curated exhibitions such as Archipiélago at the former British Embassy in Madrid, or Baldea.
Esther has also given lectures and workshops internationally in institutions such as University of the Arts (London), University for the Creative Arts (Farnham) or in Espositivo Academy (Madrid), and has curated exhibitions such as Archipiélago at the former British Embassy in Madrid, or Baldea.
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.