12.07.22 –
02.09.22
Around, above and beyond
With 'Around, above and beyond' we close a year of intense collaboration and celebrate what is yet to come. We summarise the journey and preview the next route. On this occasion, the artists will share work in progress, pieces that have been little shown and experiments with new processes.
A walk among honeysuckles, bones and chains. A fantastic landscape of bodies, flowers and forbidden fruits. One more encounter in our garden of delights, between the amorphous and the future.
A walk among honeysuckles, bones and chains. A fantastic landscape of bodies, flowers and forbidden fruits. One more encounter in our garden of delights, between the amorphous and the future.
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.
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.
Elisa Pardo Puch
Elisa Pardo Puch (1988, Madrid). After completing her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at the UCM at the CES Felipe II in Aranjuez in 2014, she obtained a Master's Degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2017. Previously, in 2010, she completed her Higher Studies in Design at the Escuela de Arte no10 in Madrid, and in 2009, she was the beneficiary of an Erasmus scholarship at the École Duperré in Paris.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions such as ‘Metal Heart: lo que pesa’ at Departamento, Bilbao; ‘Bajo el cielo de la noche’ at Boiler Room, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia; and ‘A Strange Fairytale’ at Pradiauto Gallery, ArteSantander, Santander; or ‘La Espera’, also with Pradiauto, in Madrid. In addition, her work has been part of various group exhibitions, such as the group presentation of the Miquel Casablancas Prize 2023 in Barcelona; ‘Malas Hierbas’ at CasaBanchel, Madrid, in 2024; ‘Una exposición oral’ at Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona; and ‘Garden Shed’ at Villa Bergerie, in Huesca, in 2023, among others.
Elisa Pardo Puch has also participated in various artistic residencies, such as the current one at GlogauAIR, Berlin, from January to June 2024, where she created the work for the exhibition Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas; the Residency at Villa Bergerie, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Huesca, 2023; Artist in Residence Munich, 2022; or the Matadero Artist Residency Programme. CRA Matadero, Madrid, 2020. Pardo Puch has received numerous awards such as the Miquel Casablancas Prize (finalist), Barcelona, 2023; Acquisition Prize at Nada Sobra, Nebrija University, Madrid, 2017; and Special Mention at Getxoarte, Bilbao, 2016.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions such as ‘Metal Heart: lo que pesa’ at Departamento, Bilbao; ‘Bajo el cielo de la noche’ at Boiler Room, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia; and ‘A Strange Fairytale’ at Pradiauto Gallery, ArteSantander, Santander; or ‘La Espera’, also with Pradiauto, in Madrid. In addition, her work has been part of various group exhibitions, such as the group presentation of the Miquel Casablancas Prize 2023 in Barcelona; ‘Malas Hierbas’ at CasaBanchel, Madrid, in 2024; ‘Una exposición oral’ at Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona; and ‘Garden Shed’ at Villa Bergerie, in Huesca, in 2023, among others.
Elisa Pardo Puch has also participated in various artistic residencies, such as the current one at GlogauAIR, Berlin, from January to June 2024, where she created the work for the exhibition Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas; the Residency at Villa Bergerie, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Huesca, 2023; Artist in Residence Munich, 2022; or the Matadero Artist Residency Programme. CRA Matadero, Madrid, 2020. Pardo Puch has received numerous awards such as the Miquel Casablancas Prize (finalist), Barcelona, 2023; Acquisition Prize at Nada Sobra, Nebrija University, Madrid, 2017; and Special Mention at Getxoarte, Bilbao, 2016.