This exhibition presents the work of three artists: Fabiola Burgos Labra, Ulrike Rehm, and Marija Rinkevičiūtė. They explore the boundaries of painting and sculpture.
Rehm and Rinkevičiūtė create encaustics using a technique in which hot wax is applied layer by layer with different pigments. It resembles painting, yet in Rinkevičiūtė’s works the underlying medium—linen, plaster, cardboard, or wood—is often curled, folded, and only partially visible, while in Rehm’s wax paintings her fingerprints sometimes remain in the surface. Fabiola Burgos Labra crochets around the soft bodies of fruit and vegetables. As they decay, the fruit paints the textile from within. This time the fruits hang, like digüeñes, an edible mushroom from Southern Chile, on copper pipes.
All of them draw on poetry in their working methods. For example, Burgos Labra’s work Tengo a mi cargo 16 gatos, yo cuido solo a uno que se llama Pedro consists of a branch assembled from various small sticks she collected during a walk in Ghent. Just like the branch, the title of the work was carefully composed. Burgos Labra shuffled cut-out snippets of words until she arrived at the title which, translated from Spanish, reads: “I am responsible for sixteen cats, but I take care for only one named Pedro.” This is an example of a shared approach in which an unexpected combinations of different media are made, while the final result is carefully composed.