Solid States: Orange and Gray, 2019
By Julia Willms and Andrea Božić
Collages based on digital imaging techniques, 150x83 cm
Solid States is a series of collages based on digital imaging techniques. They stage a porous interplay between interior and exterior environments – their historical/political connotations, their architectural structure, concept, form and function and their level of ‘naturalness’ or artificiality. Orange and Gray feature a huge mountain range embedded into an interior space. Orange stages the hills of Madeira (an island colonised by Portugal) within the Amsterdam Museum based in a former city orphanage building. Gray features the Zugspitze mountain top (the highest peak of Germany) within the interior of the Vienna Art Foundation exhibition space, a former horse stable. The Solid States series proposes complex systems and paradoxical relations between organic and built environments distilled to one still image.
Solid States: Orange and Gray and the performance in collaboration with the night sky Fireworks are developed as part of the exhibition i will not be just a tourist in the world of images just watching images passing by which i cannot live in make love to possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy, a group exhibition of five artists: Hee-Seung Choi, Claire Harvey, Ben Pointeker, Andrea Božić and Julia Willms.
Project: ARTspace, 99 Madison Avenue, 8 Floor, New York, NY 10016
Opening Reception: October 23, 7pm – 9pm
Exhibition: 23 October – 13 December 2019
Concept, photography: Andrea Božić and Julia Willms