Private View: You are invited to join us this Friday 31 May, 6-8.30pm
Dates: 01 - 23 June 2024
featuring: Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Del Hardin Hoyle, Antonia Low,
TC McCormack, Kirsty Russell, Amba Sayal-Bennett, Ivan Seal,
Heidi Sill and Tommy Støckel
In association with London Festival of Architecture & E17 Art Trail
This group exhibition asks us to rethink a space where sculpture and architecture coalesce, and suggests different ways to question the hierarchies of forms, while reimagining the traditional distinctions between elevation and support, subject and object and spectator and participant.
Renata Cassiano Alvarez's exuberantly colourful ceramic sculpture blends architectural forms with abstracted archaeology. Del Hardin Hoyle's objects are a compelling combination of furniture design and sculpture. Antonia Low's audio work explores everyday hidden structures within particular buildings. TC McCormack's layered print analyses formal gestures found in our everyday environment. Kirsty Russell's embroideries are concerned with support and structures that underpin and maintain. Amba Sayal-Bennett's wall based sculpture evokes an ancient or other-worldly apparatus. Working within the tradition of still life, Ivan Seal's paintings complicate orthodox depictions of inanimate objects. Heidi Sill's crystallized spaces can only be inadequately grasped through the concept of collage. While Tommy Støckel reimagines sculpture through the language of modular display architecture.
In EUCA Annex’s distinctive new space, visitors are invited to enter an exhibition where this rich and varied collection of artworks are underpinned by an assemblage of archival material. Base Notes and Place Holders are counter positions that resist classification and encourage associative leaps.
Curated by Tommy Støckel and TC McCormack, Base Notes and Place Holders is the first iteration of an ongoing project.
Opening times: Friday to Sunday, 12–6pm / or by appointment on Thursdays
Location: EUCA Annex, 67 Havant road, London E17.
Nearest stations - Tube: Walthamstow Central. Overground: Wood Street
Buses: 123, 212, W16, 55, 56
cut #112 (ARTFORUM) by Heidi Sill
Copyright VG Bildkunst 2024
about the artists
Renata Cassiano Alvarez is a Mexican-Italian artist, who works predominantly in the medium of clay, in a search for developing an intimate collaborative relationship with material and material language. Influenced by archeology and history, she is interested in the power of the object as survival - objects with a sense of permanence and timelessness, and language as transformation; specially how adopting a different language can affect the physicality of the human body, and how this translates into material. Educated in Mexico, Italy, Denmark and the US, she has had the opportunity to work in different artistic environments, a cross-cultural and multimedia experience which has lead to the belief that craft is an evolving field and something that exists in motion. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public and private collections in Mexico, Estonia, Italy, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, China, USA and Slovenia. Renata is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas School of Art, and works between her studio in Veracruz, Mexico and Springdale, Arkansas.
Antonia Low is a Berlin based artist and Professor at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Her sculptural and conceptual art is concerned with the interaction between architecture, narratives, materiality and aesthetics. With her interventions she explores and combines various procedures and strategies. In her space filling installations she reflects on spatial situations, pursuing the overlap of different layers of temporality and space.
Low’s installations were presented at GIBCA Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, ISCP New York; Ginkgo Space Beijing; K21 Kunstsammlung NRW Düsseldorf; Palazzo Altemps National Museum of Rome, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstverein Braunschweig; MACRO Testaccio Rome; Städtische Galerie Nordhorn; Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken. Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k..
Kirsty Russell is based in Aberdeen. Her work is concerned with support, and structures that underpin and maintain. With reference to the women in her family who work in positions of care, she often returns to the physical and emotional weight of the work that they do and to the repetitive nature of maintenance. Her work expands into places of care, such as hospitals and schools, through project worker and other supporting roles.
Kirsty featured in Syllabus IV, a collaboratively-produced alternative learning programme, jointly delivered by Wysing Arts Centre, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire, S1 Artspace, Eastside Projects and Iniva. She was resident at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art (2022-24) and received a bursary and funding from Jerwood. Kirsty’s work has been exhibited at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Mimosa House, London, Platform: 2021, Edinburgh Art Festival, Glasgow Women’s Library and the Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Arts Space, London and her first solo exhibition Practising Bodies at Cubitt Gallery, London - in June 2024.
Amba Sayal-Bennett is a British-Indian artist based in London, who works across drawing, projection, and sculptural installation. Her practice explores how methods of abstraction are exclusionary and performative, crafting boundaries between what is present, manifestly absent, and othered. Her recent work focuses on the migration of modernist forms and their role within fascist and brutalist architecture. Using translation as method, she explores the movement of bodies, knowledge and form across different sites, processes inherent to the diasporic experience.
Following a Sculpture MA at the Royal College of Art, Amba was awarded a PhD in Art Practice and Learning from Goldsmiths University, her research was published with Tate Papers. Amba was The Derek Hill Foundation scholar at the British School at Rome (2022) and currently lectures at Camberwell College of Arts. Recent exhibitions include Geometries of Difference, Somerset House, London, Horror in the Modernist Block, IKON, Birmingham, My Mother Was a Computer, indigo+madder, London and Tomorrow, White Cube, London.
Del Hardin Hoyle is an Artist, Designer and Musician currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Del operates an open and dynamic studio practice that combines interior and furniture design with sculpture, installation, sound and drawing. His work is often saturated with color and riddled with detail. There is a disarming and chaotic humor to his exhibitions that attempt to subvert our experience of place.
Selected exhibitions include ‘slippy’ at Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, ‘Sprout, Hinge, Nap, Wobble’ at EFA Project Space and ‘Artist’s Tools’ at Special Special both in Manhattan.
In 2023 he co-founded the experimental design studio Outgoing with artist and designer Brett Gui Xin. Del was awarded the President's Scholarship to attend Parsons The New School for Design (graduated in 2017).
TC McCormack works in the field of interdisciplinary art and curatorial practice, his artistic methods interrogate the constituents of sculptural space, image making (moving & fixed) and text. Central to his curation is an interest in more agile and commutable forms of address. Based in London, McCormack is the director of the exhibition space: EUCA Annex, he is a Researcher and Senior Lecturer, in Fine Art, at Sheffield Hallam University. TC has exhibited at Forum Exposition Bonlieu (France), Viborg Kunsthal (Denmark) Kunstraum (Linz) Nationalmuseum (Berlin), ICA (London) Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin) Centre pour L’image Contemporaine (Geneva) Platform (Istanbul) FACT (Liverpool) Kunstnernes Hus (Olso) and European Capital of Culture (Cork).
Ivan Seal lives and works in Berlin, he is a painter and sound artist who specializes in surreal and abstract works centered around concepts of memory and the creation of imagined objects.
He has exhibited internationally in institutions, galleries and alternative spaces. Recently, these have included Podo Museum (South Korea), Frac Auvergne (France), Unsound (Poland), Alma Pearl (UK), Richard Heller (USA), Monica Cardenas (Italy) and Allouche Benias (Greece). Seal also collaborates with the musician James Kirby, particularly in the project The Caretaker.
Ivan studied at Sheffield Hallam University and he lectures at the Royal College of Art.
Heidi Sill lives and works in Berlin, she works across a variety of media including: ink drawings, collages and installations. An examination of the phenomenon of the surface, such as symbolic inscriptions on the outer appearance, injuries and marks, and thus concepts such as the trace and the imprint, play an essential role in her work.
Sill studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques, Paris. She has lectured at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin), Ecole Supérieure d'Art et Design Grenoble-Valence (F) and currently at the HAW Hamburg, Department Design. Sill is a spokesperson for and board member of; bbk berlin (Professional Association of Visual Artists).
Heidi has been commissioned for Public Art projects and has exhibited internationally,
including: a.o ZAK Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Zitadelle Spandau; Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden; Neues Museum Nürnberg; Kunstpavillon Munich; n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Istres (F); Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble; Bonner Kunstverein; Club Transmediale Berlin; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; kunst galerie fürth; Griffin Gallery, London; Kunsthaus Erfurt; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Artothek Munich; Kunsthaus Nürnberg; Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam; Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London
Tommy Støckel’s projects draw inspiration from everyday objects, spaces and situations as well as from found digital material. These are meticulously reworked and transformed into artworks in a wide range of media, including site-specific installations, sculptures, photographs, typefaces, emojis and various digital formats.
Støckel was born in Copenhagen and is based in Berlin. He has had solo exhibitions at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main; Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen and Arnolfini, Bristol. His work has also been shown in The Atlantic Project, Plymouth; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; CAPC, Bordeaux; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm and the Gwangju Biennale.
‘the light becomes the eye, and as such no longer exists'
title of the exhibition is borrowed from Michel Tournier’s novel; Friday or The Other Island (1967), in a retelling of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
In The Light Becomes The Eye, EUCA Annex brings together the work of five artists - Alasdair Asmussen Doyle, Benedict Drew, Melanie Manchot, Miranda Pennell & Sasha Pirker - whose diverse practices playfully investigate the malleability of physical & filmic space, the slippages between perception and proximity, and the agency of the camera.
For EUCA Annex’s first screen-based exhibition the distinctive new space goes dark, creating an intimate and resonant setting. All the artists in this exhibition cast light, in personal and ephemeral ways, but when viewed collectively this gathering of immersive films appear to both speak through us and sing of the adjacently possible.*
Alasdair Asmussen Doyle’s single-shot film negotiates the limits of human and technological sight, contemplating the movable space between the horizon and the ends of visibility. Benedict Drew’s film explores the psychedelic potential of music and the moving image, as an ecstatic response to socio-political anxiety. From a point of disorientation Melanie Manchot’s film leads the viewer into a highly formal choreographed scene, and yet that shared gesture balances notions of nature and human agency. An unpredictable camera plays a game of cat and mouse with the subjects of Miranda Pennell’s film, where losing contact can be traumatic, as the viewer is fixed by the gaze of dancers who crowd the frame. Sasha Pirker’s film is a compelling architectural study of an absentee; a place that is both a retreat and an exhibition object, the apartment of the artist Heinz Frank proves to be full of hidden functions and surprising views.
curated by TC McCormack
*The term ‘the adjacent possible’ was coined by the theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman, to describe ‘all those entities that are one reaction step away from the actual’, in a kind of ‘shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself’. (Steven Johnson, 2010)
Opening times: Friday to Sunday, 12–6pm / or by appointment
Location: EUCA Annex, 67 Havant road, London E17.
Nearest stations - Tube: Walthamstow Central. Overground: Wood Street
Buses: 123, 212, W16, 55, 56
Miranda Pennell: You Made Me Love You
Ecstatic Melody (2023)
gewesen sein wird / will have been (2022)
False land (2021)
Cadence (2018)
You Made Me Love You (2005)
Alasdair Asmussen Doyle is based between Belfast and Brussels, he employs moving-image and filmic heritage to navigate multiple relations of physical places and films. Combining contemporary theories of landscape with early shooting instruments, he creates works that negotiate hybrid geographical positions. Drawing from an array of narratives that traverse both time and place, his installations and films render spaces as perpetually evolving and fragmented. This perspective is shaped by Alasdair's own experiences as an Australian inhabiting another island on the other side of the globe, and his work seeks to address potentialities of dislocation and duality. Alasdair’s work has been shown at Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; The Serving Library, Liverpool; Leave of Absence (LOA), London; Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris; Meat Markets, Melbourne; Void Gallery, Northern Ireland; and undertaken residencies at An Lanntair, Outer Hebrides; the British School of Rome, Rome; La Cite des Arts, Paris and Popp’s Packing, Detroit. Alasdair has lectured at the Royal College of Art (London) and Belfast School of Art, and is currently completing a practice-based PhD at the Belfast School of Art, in partnership with aemi (Dublin).
Benedict Drew is based in Whitstable and Margate, he works across video, sculpture, drawing, painting, and music. Solo exhibitions include The Trickle-Down Syndrome, Whitechapel Gallery, London; KAPUT, QUAD, Derby; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; and THE ANTI ECSTATIC MACHINES and Heads May Roll, Matt’s Gallery, London. Drew’s work has been exhibited internationally including at Adelaide Festival, Australia; Lofoten International Arts Festival, Norway, Hayward Touring exhibitions, British Art Show 8 and Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness. He has been commissioned by Art on the Underground, London and Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, and his work is included in important collections, including the Arts Council. Drew has performed in improvising ensembles, programmed concerts and club nights, and been a producer at the cultural charity London Musicians Collective. Drew often collaborates with other artists and musicians, and has released records on Mana Records and Kaleidoscope. He launched his own label; Thanet Tape Centre in 2020, and regularly makes work for radio. Benedict is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London.
Melanie Manchot is a London based visual artist and filmmaker who works with photography, moving image and sound as a performative and participatory practice. Her projects often explore specific sites, public spaces or particular communities in order to locate notions of individual and collective identities. The mutability of subjectivity as well as the agency of the camera in creating a set of relations are key interests within Manchot’s investigation of personhood and its representations. Manchot’s work is included in important public and private collections, her work has been shown nationally and internationally including exhibitions at The Whitechapel Gallery, London; MacVal, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Paris; The Photographers Gallery, London; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Australian Museum of Photography, Sydney. Manchot has participated in a number of biennales, including The Venice Biennale in 2007 and The Istanbul Biennial in 2009. Her debut feature film: STEPHEN was exhibited at the Liverpool Biennial (2023) and premiered at Sheffield DocFest (2023). The installation STEPHEN is to tour nationally and the film will be released to cinemas by Modern Films in spring 2024.
Miranda Pennell is a London-based artist-filmmaker, her films emphasise the role of the imagination in the interpretation of historical documents, most recently drawing on genre-fiction as a way of engaging with troubled histories. After training as a dancer Miranda’s practice shifted from dance and live choreography to film direction, her films have focused on performance and choreography in everyday life, to more recently reflecting on the legacies of imperialism. Her award-winning films have been screened internationally in cinemas, galleries, TV and film festivals, including London, Rotterdam, Berlin, New York, and Vienna. Her work has recently been screened at Close-Up Film Centre, London (2023), Stuttgart FilmWinter Festival for Expanded Media (2019), Filmmuseum Munich (2017), Institut Français, Budapest (2017) and exhibited at Tabakalera Centre for Contemporary Culture , San Sebastian (2023), Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol (2022), New Museum for Art and Design, Nuremberg (2019) & Lahore Biennale 02 (2018).
Sasha Pirker is a visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Vienna. Her work frequently takes the process of filmic creation and perception as their theme. First and foremost, though, Pirker is interested in social issues. Sasha studied Linguistics in Vienna and Paris. Her work has been shown internationally at festivals, and exhibited in galleries and arts institutions; Schindler House (Los Angeles), MAK Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna), Kunstmuseum (Bonn), Museum of Modernism (Salzburg), Museum of Contemporary Art, Castilla y León (Spain), Kunsthaus (Graz), Chinati Foundation (Marfa, USA) and screened at Visions (Montréal), Mumok, Museum of Modern Art (Vienna), Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema, 67th Film Festival (Venice), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) & Anthology Films Archive (New York) and a retrospective at the VIENNALE International Film Festival (Vienna). Sasha is a lecturer in film, video and art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and runs; Size Matters; a space for art and film in Vienna.
Dates: 2nd - 30th June 2023
A two person exhibition featuring artists:
Dorit Margreiter (Vienna) + Fay Nicolson (London)
in association with the London Festival of Architecture:
The Felicitous Encounter is Euca Annex’s inaugural exhibition, were Dorit Margreiter and Fay Nicolson bring together new, recent and unseen works, that explore the tensions between architecture and image, orientation and choreography, time and movement. In Euca Annex’s distinctive new space, visitors are invited to explore the site sensitive works by the artists, featuring sculpture, photography and painting.
The philosophers Hardt and Negri in asking what makes the ‘Commons visible, they coined the term The Felicitous Encounter, to describe a moment when individuals come together, to exchange knowledge and form something new. The essence of the encounter, they claim, is ‘the great wealth of a city’.
The Felicitous Encounter is Margreiter and Nicolson's first exhibition together. The work of both artists offers a direct dialogue with the space, from Margreiter's meticulous installational arrangement, which explores connections between representation and fiction, to Nicolson's site-sensitive painting, that channels the energy of performance and draws out synesthetic connections between sound, movement and image.
Dorit Margreiter is based in Vienna, with an artistic interest that correlates to the intricacies between visual systems, spatial structures, and the consequences that they hold for our everyday social lives and the ways we comprehend them. Margreiter explores relations between the physical and social dimensions of architecture, often creating time-based installations to augment and accentuate this relationship. Notable solo exhibitions include; Plečnik House Museum (Ljubljana, 2023), MUMOK (Vienna, 2019), MoMA (NYC, 2013), 53rd La Biennale di Venezia, (Venice, 2009). Dorit is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. www.doritmargreiter.net
Fay Nicolson lives and works in London, with a cross-disciplinary and site sensitive practice, the work cuts a dynamic line between performance and painting. As well as exhibiting internationally, Fay has performed as a solo artist, collaborator and performer. Recent Solo Shows include: Dithyramb, Quip and Curiosity, Cambridge (2023), SPA SONGS, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth (2019/20); Sound before Symbol, DKUK, London (2018); OVER AND OVER PURE FORM, Kunstraum, London (2016/17). Nicolson studied at the RCA and Central Saint Martins, has taught internationally and is a Lecturer at Kingston School of Art. www.faynicolson.com @fay_nicolson
Opening times: Wednesday to Sunday, 12–5pm
Location: EUCA Annex, 67 Havant road, London E173JE Nearest stations - Tube: Walthamstow Central. Overground: Wood Street Buses: 123, 212, W16, 55, 56
www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/2023-festival/