Meet Kristina Solomoukha & Paolo Codeluppi
Kristina Solomoukha & Paolo Codeluppi, The Ambiguous Origin of Architectural Species, a performance at Les Laboratories d'Aubervillier, May 2013.
Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.
Meet the artists, learn about their work, and hear about the project they are planning for Lynden.
Artists Kristina Solomoukha and Paolo Codeluppi have embarked on a two-part residency that will combine research, travel and a final presentation in the summer of 2014.
Their research is guided in part by the ideas of experimental archeology, as well as by history and the way we perceive it. Their work takes the form of installations, often accompanied by performative presentations that build relationships between elements, creating a narrative or story that exposes the mechanisms underlying the development of their work. Travel is central to Solomoukha & Codeluppi’s collaborative practice, and they deploy objects and images collected on their trips alongside objects they create themselves. These objects serve as prompts and catalysts for their ongoing dialogue, providing them with material to elaborate their thought processes, and in turn to present them.
At Lynden—an open air gallery—Solomoukha & Codeluppi are beginning a project that explores the relationship between sculpture and space. Their starting point is the notion of heteropia as defined by Michel Foucault: as the physical existence of utopian spaces that house the imagination. They will make a video document of events and places that best explain this concept to them. Ultimately, it will be presented as a video projection in the sculpture garden.
While at Lynden this summer, Solomoukha/Codeluppi will work on their proposal for this projection, whose working title is Video Sculptures. They will also be researching and filming material for a project supported by the Ville de Paris grant awarded by the Mairie de Paris that will culminate in a presentation at the Contexts gallery in Paris in the first half of 2014.
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The 2013 residency is supported in part by the Mairie de Paris.
