SOPHIE TAPPEINER curated by Jeppe Ugelvig
„Get Rid of Yourself“

8.9 - 26.9.2020 Press release (opens in new tab)
SOPHIE TAPPEINER, An der Hülben 3, 1010 Vienna
www.sophietappeiner.com

Curator(s):

Jeppe Ugelvig is a curator and cultural critic based in New York and London. His research focuses on histories and theories of cultural production. Jeppe is a 2018 graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. In 2019, he was a resident of the Sandretto Foundation Young Curators Residency Programme in Turin, Italy, and at Delfina Foundation in London. Recent exhibitions include Fashion Work, Fashion Workers at the Hessel Museum (New York), Capriccio 2000 at Fondazione Sandretto (Turin), and Phantom Plane at Tai Kwun (Hong Kong). His first book, Fashion Work: 25 Years of Art in Fashion was published by Damiani in 2020.
Jeppe Ugelvig
© Matthew Morrocco

Artist(s):

  • Rindon Johnson works across numerous modes, from virtual reality and sculpture to poetry and art criticism. Questions of embodiment and technology weave throughout his work: How do we employ digital space, and how are we employed by it? How much is history a virtual construct? What does skin remember? Johnson’s materials are carefully considered, building on the notion of the by-product and calling on histories of colonial exploitation and slavery. Using dynamic processes like aging, staining, and exposure to the elements, he encodes time and place as both materials and collaborators. With a candid, sharp-edged humor, Johnson’s practice balances playful experimentation with a stark examination of intimacy, violence, and the future of historical legacy.
  • Trevor Yeung
  • Kayode Ojo
  • Bernadette Corporation

Photos

Get Rid of Yourself, exhibition view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2020
Get Rid of Yourself, exhibition view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2020
Courtesy of Galerie Allen, Martos Gallery and the artists. Copyright: kunst-dokumentation.com
Get Rid of Yourself, exhibition view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2020
Get Rid of Yourself, exhibition view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2020
Courtesy of Sweetwater, Berlin and the artists. Copyright: kunst-dokumentation.com
Get Rid of Yourself, exhibition view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2020
Get Rid of Yourself, exhibition view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2020
Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner, Galerie Allen and the artists. Copyright: kunst-dokumentation.com
Rindon Johnson, Honey, honey, honey, at the function, that’s when they realized it was impossible to go any further with their companion, they stumbled, people were trying to take their coat off, they touched phones, and other limbs with eyelashes blinking against one another -- What do you mean? -- Because if they did, they’d have to, the difference of the conversation, which continued, change the water at least once a day, honestly, let me tell you how it seems to me: you, man from another world, full of evils, you who see my paradise as Hell, will you ask what my world must be like?, 2020. Leather, Coloured Pencil, Crayon approx. 104 x 66 cm
Rindon Johnson, Honey, honey, honey, at the function, that’s when they realized it was impossible to go any further with their companion, they stumbled, people were trying to take their coat off, they touched phones, and other limbs with eyelashes blinking against one another -- What do you mean? -- Because if they did, they’d have to, the difference of the conversation, which continued, change the water at least once a day, honestly, let me tell you how it seems to me: you, man from another world, full of evils, you who see my paradise as Hell, will you ask what my world must be like?, 2020. Leather, Coloured Pencil, Crayon approx. 104 x 66 cm
Courtesy of the artist. Copyright: kunst-dokumentation.com
Jala Wahid, Nothing left to protect or to protect you, 2020. Jesmonite, 47 x 70 x 10 cm
Jala Wahid, Nothing left to protect or to protect you, 2020. Jesmonite, 47 x 70 x 10 cm
Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: kunst-dokumentation.com
BERNADETTE CORPORATION, Get Rid of Yourself, 2003, 61 min, color, sound
BERNADETTE CORPORATION, Get Rid of Yourself, 2003, 61 min, color, sound
Courtesy of Greene Naftali + Electronic Arts Intermix. Copyright: kunst-dokumentation.com