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

Curator(s):

Jeppe Ugelvig More

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.

© Matthew Morrocco

Artist(s):

• Rindon Johnson More
  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

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