RED PATIENCE: Izidora L. LETHE and Johanna Breiding

Bass and Reiner Gallery is pleased to present RED PATIENCE, a duo show by artists Izidora L. LETHE and Johanna Breiding.  The show is the first collaboration between the gallery and the artists. As dialogue, both artists engage in and examine erotics through relationality by embodied research on volcanic lands and thereby encounter formal entanglements.

In the artist's words: "RED PATIENCE has been developed through pandemic months as an exchange of kindred co-labor between the artists: A shared methodology of creating haptic art works alongside each other in disparate places. In the context of contemporary disembodied all-digitized-relationality, the artists account for a shared desire to expand into deep time and learn the earth, look down, engage in multiple and complex layers of form, history, and composition. As the research of the volcanic is shaped by touch, literary and theoretic texts*, and sensuous tracing, the artists center a non-phallic cascading, erupting, cratering and inter-connected melting in this exhibition.

"If rock can melt, form is not given.

"RED PATIENCE is a proposition of placed research and collaboration through the body, particularly the non-binary one. The artists aim to erode single authorship toward shared thinking, expanded genres or a convolution of the idea of a clear reading of abstracted artworks. Instead, the artists allow for a (simultaneously alert and passionate) patience during this time of waiting, asserting feeling body and bodies to allow room and space beyond binary definition.

Swiss designer and sound artist A. Frei contributed in a furthered collaborative gesture with their design for the take-away risograph print in Red Patience. "

The artists will be present 4.17 & 4.20.

To schedule a 30 minute appointment, please email info@bassandreiner.com.

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