Anna Varendorff’s exhibition kiki extends her exploration of sculpture through the interplay of salvaged and new materials. Steel, rust, and remnants of industrial grates – makers of labour and industry - are reconfigured by delicate brass fixtures, evoking the precision of artisanal jewellery settings or the intimacy of treasured objects. These materials, signifiers of dystopia and capitalist decline, are carefully transformed, resisting disenchantment with a quiet insistence on renewal.
Varendorff’s works in kiki are most often in pairs, not as fixed binaries, but as repetitions, stutters or companions. These arrangements suggest fluid relationships, alternatives and non-hierarchical states. Layered grills become shading, textile, or weave, where the hard-edge meets the delicate, and abstraction holds space for the presence of the feminine, the gestural and the attentive.
Image: courtesy of the artist.
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