Anaïs Horn & Carol Rama at Vienna Contemporary

MLZ ART DEP Booth A10

Vienna Contemporary Kursalon Vienna

7–20 September 2023

During Horn’s residency at ISCP (International Study and Curatorial Program) NYC in fall 2022, the artist started implementing ideas of combining photography and painting. The “NYC Still Lifes – Ghost Monologues” present a series of still lifes, taken at Horn’s NYC apartment, furniture, and objects of the everyday, that interest her in their dimension of having their own secret memories. The photographs are inkjet-printed on canvas and then Horn adds a layer of ghostly appearances to it with paintings, merging the real with a world that only exists as a feeling. Besides the paintings Horn presents a series of vintage architecture lamps - of which Rama used multiple in her home and studio in Turin - and transforms them into sculptures by painting and installing them with found antique objects. These works establish a dialogue with Carol Rama, whose timeless work Horn admires, for its radical intimacy, being deeply inspired by the interiors of Rama’s house in Turin, where the artist lived and worked for over 70 years.

Anaïs Horn: Per Carol (Piede di principessa), 2023, vintage architecture desk lamp, cast iron lamp stand, found objects, ca. 70x70 cm.

Anaïs Horn: NYC still lifes / Ghost Monologue IV (Rapunzel), 2023, oil and oil stick on inkjet printed linen, 90 × 60 cm, in artist’s frame.

RGR Galeria Mexico City / The Afterwake: Anaïs Horn & Pedro Zylbersztajn

July 27th–September 10th, 2023

Curated by Gabriela Rangel, this exhibition brings together the work of two young international artists Anaïs Horn and Pedro Zylbersztajn to Mexico City. Inspired by the homonymous poem by Adrienne Rich, The Afterwake invites the viewer to enter an evocative experience on time as a transition and an unfathomable interval through the analogy of the waves left by a ship in the water. The multi-layered installation Longing Ghosts in Deep Blue Paranoia by Anaïs Horn presents a fictional scene of Empress Charlotte of Belgium, who was confined for almost 50 years in Belgium after the execution of her husband, Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg in 1867. Recalling the daguerreotype technique –whose peak coincides with the Habsburg dynasty decline—Horn situated Charlotte’s delirium at their Italian home the castle of Miramare in Trieste. The tragic fate of the delusional empress is represented through a series of blurry images printed on mirrors, a single-channel video projection of ghostly images, and drawings. These elements are juxtaposed in a dense atmosphere accompanied by a hypnotic fragrance created by Pauline Rochas, a sound atmosphere by Eilert Asmervik, and texts composed by Estelle Hoy. Pedro Zylbersztajn presents four conceptual works starting with Écfrase de um filme (pausado), a complex exercise of narration in which a room is described in detail as it appears in a film. The story is characterized by an intricate and abstract structure that takes the shape of wall writing. A video projection Three Digestions explores the notions of consumption and colonial extraction as they relate to our practices – and infrastructures – of knowledge and culture. Sentimental Journey presents an exploration of feedback and delay through a synchronized action of four delegated performers. By contrast, Servimos bien para servir siempre frames the social fabric of the opening of the show as the performance itself. Artists' talk: The Afterwake On Saturday, July 29 at 12:00h, will be held a conversation at the gallery with the participation of artists Anaïs Horn and Pedro Zylbersztajn, as well as curator Gabriela Rangel to discuss more about the development and execution of this project.

Looking forward @ The Grand Chelsea, NYC

My new work NYC still lifes / Ghost Monologue I (Clea), 2023, oil and oil stick on inkjet printed linen, 90 × 60 cm , was on view at the Grand Chelsea, NYC last month as part of the mail art group show “Looking forward”, organized by Florian Mayr and Samuel Bich.