CLAUDIA DAMICHI

'Domestic Fantastic'

 

AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

 

OPENING EVENT:

FRIDAY AUGUST 26, 6-8PM



 

Artist-Run-Initiative

presents...

'MONICA ROHAN

'Get a Grip'

IN THE RYAN RENSHAW WINDOW BOX

Claudia Damichi’s new body of work brings to mind the artful resistance of Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington. Like Carrington, Damichi transforms the isolation of domestic spaces into a site of fantastical defiance and imaginative reclamation. 


The anthropomorphisation of furniture offers the possibility of otherwise improbable scenarios where chairs appear to balance, like acrobats, in ridiculous arrangements. Damichi usurps the strain of domesticity by re-purposing the objects in her paintings: utilitarian objects have become sentient and interactive.

 

Domestic Fantastic cleverly augments Damichi’s previous explorations of the domestic sphere. By developing a sophisticated interplay between (apparently) inert elements, within a room she conjures an alternate and enigmatic other world.  One wonders whether her chairs talk to each other when she leaves the room.

 

Ali Noble