The Unseen Eyebeam Crossed (solo) | 13 - 23 June 2024 | puntWG, Amsterdam (NL)

Photography Ilya Rabinovich and Rein Kooyman.

The Unseen Eyebeam Crossed  is a new body of site-responsive sculptural works marking Marie Farrington’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. Informed directly by the gallery space, the works take the history and context of the WG building as a point of departure to explore the archival nature of architecture: as a temporal index, a conduit for memory, a staging and orientation of relationships, and a ritual landscape of reciprocity and care. A broad range of materials converge in the works, including glass, soapstone, talc, clay, brass, candlewick and jute. Found windowpanes originating from the surrounding residential streets become fragmented frames that enter into exchange with the space, holding ghostly silhouettes of exhibition objects. Leakages, gaps, breakages and displacements reveal the porous borders of these arrangements, which contain the bi-products of each other’s formation and produce a circuitry of testing grounds that feel both diagrammatic and ephemeral. The resulting works evoke a spectral presence through unfixed or provisional elements that complicate the dichotomy of transparency and opacity. The installations perform a subtle mapping of the gallery’s schematics, plotting the body and it’s material encounters within pictorial and spatial planes. What emerges is a meditation on the act of looking, manifested through material assemblages that reflect on the conditions of their own visibility.