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100mph
Rebecca Ackroyd, 柏林, 2021年1月22日 - 3月5日

100mph Rebecca Ackroyd

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Peres Projects is pleased to present 100mph, Rebecca Ackroyd’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
 
Ackroyd’s installation has brought the walls of the gallery space closer, scaffolding obscures the view through the windows, and Ackroyd’s paintings hang from these temporary, supportive structures against cloudy, translucent dust sheets. These structures make the incongruous suggestion of impermanence, in cityscapes where those frames are the urban’s most enduring symbol of continual growth and change. In 100mph we step into the building site where her works stage processes of both demolition and construct new formulations.
 
Rebecca Ackroyd is interested in the twinned experiences of personal and collective memory, and how we reconcile their dissonance in our lives. The works in this exhibition deal with personal psychology, through an exploration of dreams and through strategies of compartmentalization – both tools for processing and digesting our experiences. In her second exhibition at Peres Projects, Ackroyd architecturally intervenes in the space with semitransparent, plastic dividers, creating pods that isolate both the works and the viewer. In navigating the installation, we are alone with each work, given space to experience the drawings privately. Isolation diminishes stimulation, the busyness of the street outside momentarily blurred, and allows for a more intimate encounter.
 
Hair tells stories. Like rings on a tree, it records our personal histories as the physical embodiment of time.  Simultaneously, hair is socially charged: if and how it’s coiffed, shown or covered, worn curly or straight. Ackroyd’s works on paper are often centered around hair. It sweeps through the composition to camouflage or cradle objects, letters and other signifiers, with an agency of its own. These clues lead us through a narrative centered around contemporary experiences of femininity within urban spaces. The drawings are fragments, the whole is obscured, the body is abstracted through scale and repetition, becoming both bodily and speculative. Ackroyd’s sculptural works are also often fragmented, resembling remnants uncovered in archaeological digs. Both act as filaments connecting histories and loaded objects, populating the gallery space with discarded and forgotten attachments of the past. Through an exposed kneecap, a torn stocking, or a glimpse of talons, the works in the exhibition create a sensory reality that straddles the imagined real and symbolic, borrowing from the destabilizing surreal visual language of dreams. As viewers, we trespass into Ackroyd’s own dreams, invited to appropriate them as our own. In so doing, the works assemble a contemporary feminine perspective on sexuality, desire and the subconscious. 
 
100mph sensitively reflects on themes of sexuality, narratives of progress, our built environments, and the subconscious mind. Setting together conflicting momentums of extended and suspended time – the mind racing, but going nowhere. An entangled mixture of social commentary and personal reflection, posited to the viewer as a circuit through the process of renovation, and the repair and wreckage that entails.
 
Rebecca ACKROYD (b.1987, UK) lives and works between Berlin and London. She received her Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy, London and her BA from Byam Shaw School of Art London. Ackroyd’s dream-like fictional landscapes often resemble apocalyptic fantasies devoid of gender and taboo; exploring wild and domestic spaces, ruin and contraction, desire and disgust. Recent solo exhibitions include “The Mulch” at Peres Projects  and “The Root” at the Zabludowicz Collection, London curated by Paul Luckraft. Ackroyd’s work was also presented at the 15e Biennale de Lyon, organized by the curatorial team of the Palais de Tokyo, as well as a recent solo exhibition at the Fondazione Pomodoro in Milan, curated by Cloé Perrone.
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Installation Shots
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Rebecca Ackroyd 100mph Installation View January 22 – February 26, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Rebecca Ackroyd 100mph Installation View January 22 – February 26, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Rebecca Ackroyd 100mph Installation View January 22 – February 26, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Rebecca Ackroyd 100mph Installation View January 22 – February 26, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Rebecca Ackroyd 100mph Installation View January 22 – February 26, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Rebecca Ackroyd 100mph Installation View January 22 – February 26, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Rebecca Ackroyd 100mph Installation View January 22 – February 26, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Rebecca Ackroyd 100mph Installation View January 22 – February 26, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
报道
  • Installation view of Rebecca Ackroyd’s exhibition “100mph” at Peres Projects, Berlin (2021)

    In a Manner of Speaking

    Maria Abramenko, Nasty Magazine, 2021年11月1日
  • Rebecca Ackroyd "Trawler" (2020)

    Rebecca Ackroyd: Peres Projects

    Louisa, Elderton, Artforum, 2021年5月1日
  • Rebecca Ackroyd "1,000,000 eggs" (2020) (detail)

    Bukuts, Carina, The Best Exhibitions to See in the EU this Spring

    Carina Bukuts, Frieze, 2021年2月26日
  • Installation view of Rebecca Ackroyd's exhibition "100mph" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2021)

    Rebecca Ackroyd’s 100 mph

    Molly Cranston , The Editorial Magazine, 2021年2月21日
  • Rebecca Ackroyd "Drip feed" (2020)

    Rebecca Ackroyd Takes Femininity to the Battlefield

    Chloe Stead, Frieze, 2021年2月18日
  • Rebecca Ackroyd "untitled" (2020) (detail)

    See Works by 5 Artists in the Artnet Gallery Network That We’re Watching This Month

    Artnet News, 2021年2月1日

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