ANDRO WEKUA
b. 1977, GeorgiaKnown for his uncanny evocations of architecture and memory through exhibitions that imply a non-linear narrative, Wekua here creates a psychologically charged interior. A figure, at once robotic and lifelike, is isolated in a clean gallery space, behind a forbidding block wall that restricts the view to the outside world. The device from which the figure hangs suggests a playground swing, yet he or she hangs in a physically impossible position. Wekua poses questions about interior and exterior, private and public space, performance and imprisonment, revelling in an ambiguity that serves to provoke the viewer’s imagination.
Andro Wekua (b. 1977) lives and works in Berlin and New York. Solo exhibitions include Pink Wave Hunter, Benaki Museum, Athens (2014) and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2011), Never Sleep with a Strawberry in Your Mouth, Kunsthalle Wien (2011), A Neon Shadow, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2011), Workshop Report, Wiels, Brussels and Museion, Bolzano (2009), My Bike and Your Swamp, Camden Arts Centre, London and De Hallen, Haarlem (2008), and Wait to Wait, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2007). Group shows include INSIDE, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014), The Human Factor: Uses of the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London (2014), A Disagreeable Object, Sculpture Center, New York (2012), ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale (2011), Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010), Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2010), Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zürich (2008) and Berlin Biennale (2006).
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