LAMB Arts presents la•cu•na, a group show by artists Jemma Appleby (b. 1987, United Kingdom), Ricardo Carioba,(b. Brazil, 1976) and Julia Mota (b. Brazil, 1988).
The relationship between these works are their desire to express the essence of a space, fictional or real, using subtraction, between the abstract and the figurative. They translate and define the architecture of a space through its atmosphere, or Stimmung- the authenticity that is constituent of every landscape.
Jemma Appleby`s charcoal drawings of minimal undefined spaces make use of chiaroscuro and geometric precision to depict the idea of a space; an ambience that feels familiar but not entirely identifiable, like the traces from the memory of a dream. For the first time she will make a site specific drawing, on the wall of the gallery, using the physical dimensions of the room as limitation and inspiration for her projected space.
In "Dissolução dos Símbolos" Ricardo Carioba uses sound and light to create an entrancing experience in the gallery`s cave. The sound activates circular light images on the both extremities of the space, creating a two-demensional relationship between the projections. Enclosed by these projections, which are constantly in movement and hard to define, and the surrounding sound, one feels the spacial dimension in a more instinctive manner - in the torax, rather than seen and intellectualized.
Julia Mota studied architecture before getting a masters in Visual Poetics at the Federal University of São Paulo. In these intimate compositions, that resemble an after image- a vision left in the retina after you close your eyes- Mota synthesizes volumes and planes of perspective taken from characteristic architectural elements she observes in the chaotic landscape of São Paulo. The punctual white areas reveal the emptiness, spaces with a lack of building- such as demolitions and parking lots between buildings- inviting the viewer into a vanishing point.
By Natacha de Oliveira