| | | | | | | | Deborah Kelly
Arcadia Vanquished, 2016
Collage, ink, metallic pigment, UV protective varnish, rhinestone
Swarovski crystal and acrylic beads on Moulin de Larrocque cotton paper
66 x 51 cm
CHF 5’200 | | | | | | Life In The Ruins | | | | 5 October – 4 November 2018 | | | | Opening: Thursday, 4 October 2018, 6-8 pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Deborah Kelly
Death Cult, 2017
Collage, pure pigment, ink, gouache on Moulin de Larrocque handmade cotton paper
40,5 x 32,7 cm
CHF 3’500 | | | | | | "Life in the Ruins" at Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie in Zurich is Deborah Kelly’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, curated by Daniel Blochwitz.
Discarded books and encyclopedias are as much source material for Deborah Kelly (*1962) as her avid studies, her boundless curiosity and vivid imagination. She describes it as her "obsession with constructing new possibilities for the symbolic order from abandoned books, and their sorrowful status as the ruins of a civilization – which is ours."
As the Australian artist travels the globe from residency to biennial to workshop to arts festival and back home, she investigates local folklore, religious imagery, stories and personal experiences while picking up wildly diverse printed materials on her way. It’s as if she collects fragments of the world’s memory, which she reassembles into eloquent, spirited and allegorical fantasies, audacious proposals and cautionary tales that speak to the state of this very world. | | | | | | | | | Deborah Kelly
Mervenus, 2017
Collage, pure pigment, ink, on handmade cotton paper
41,5 x 40 cm
CHF 4’800 | | | | | | The resulting artworks seem like exercises in resistance: refusing the vanishing of our material, corporeal, social, and natural world that threatens to become a digital, virtual, asocial, asexual and man-made dystopia. They also seem like lessons in dissent: protesting the loss of voice and agency, but also the erosion of liberty and solidarity. After all, collages and photomontages always appear in times when other modes of artistic expression fail to capture the mood and urgency of crises. Deborah Kelly presents us in Life in the Ruins with her-story, showing us that another world is not just possible, but has always been there.
Deborah Kelly’s works have been included in the Biennales of Singapore, Venice, Thessaloniki, Tarra Warra and Sydney. Her solo and collaborative works have been shown in galleries, museums, streets and cinemas around the world. Her work is held in numerous important private and museum collections. She is also the recipient of several awards, including the National Works on Paper Acquisition Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC, Albury Art Prize, NSW, and the Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW. She lives and works in Sydney, Australia. | | | | | | | | | Deborah Kelly
Hard to Love, 2017
Collage, pure pigment, ink, dye on Garza handmade cotton paper
40,5 x 30,7 cm
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