- Venue
- Collective Gallery
- Starts
- Wednesday, September 6, 2023
- Ends
- Sunday, September 10, 2023
- Address
- 39 Eastcheap, London EC3M 1DT
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Collective Gallery
NEWS FLASH!!
You can see MARISA POLIN’S current Small House Gallery show: LIMINAL (across both Small House Galleries) IN PERSON! For One Week Only!
It’s is going to be part of Marisa’s solo show in London this week!
Marisa Polin: City Break
at Collective Gallery
39 Eastcheap, London EC3M 1DT
Marisa Polin reflects on the space we inhabit and the city within ourselves. The artist from Mexico City deconstructs reality into the abstract, revealing its essence. In her sculptures she highlights the tension of materials like metal, felt or plastic, forcing opposing forces to coexist in a delicate balance on the edge of rupture.
ig: @marisapolinart
Soft opening Wednesday 6th September, 1-6pm
Private View Thursday 7th September, 5-8pm
Open 6-10 September, 1-6pm (and by appointment)
(And then it returns to Small House Gallery’s usual home on the dresser in the living room of a South London flat…)
Marisa Polin: LIMINAL
(Small House Gallery, throughout September 2023, by appointment)
Marisa Polin’s steel structures explore the boundary between polarities. The Mexican artist works with the tension of the material, forcing opposing forces to coexist in a delicate, almost impossible balance that could explode any minute: the fleeting instant versus the eternity, the strength versus the fragility, the feminine juxtaposed with the masculine. Each artwork stands in the limit between two dimensions. Her creations bend time and space, emerging as portals that tame metal to express the intangibility of water, the silent butterfly wings flapping into symbolic shapes that reveal an intimate structure. Polin deconstructs real things into the abstract, revealing their essence.
Backed by a vibrant, geometric, and minimalist language, she delves into themes of intimacy, home, and memory, inviting onlookers to witness the emotional dialogues.
“Art has been my motivation since I was a girl in Mexico City. While studying at La Esmeralda and San Carlos, I met a generation of teachers and colleagues that still inspire me. A strong curiosity drove my travels, and I ended up living in Europe. My studios are in London and The Hague, but I work as well on the move, in the forest, a garden or other public spaces. I am a traveller that bridges between cultures.”
