Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
Spine, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
41 x 36 cm (16 x 14 in)
Framed Dimensions:
45 x 40 cm (18 x 16 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Pin head, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
185 x 122 cm (73 x 48 in)
Framed Dimensions:
190 x 127 cm (75 x 50 in)
Framed Dimensions:
190 x 127 cm (75 x 50 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Against the fence, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
51 x 32 cm (20 x 13 in)
Framed Dimensions:
55 x 36 cm (22 x 14 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Keep mum, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
183 x 143 cm (72 x 56 in)
Framed Dimensions:
190 x 149 cm (75 x 59 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Scream Therapy, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
25 x 38 cm (10 x 15 in)
Framed Dimensions:
29 x 42 cm (12 x 17 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Drip feed, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
29 x 37 cm (12 x 15 in)
Framed Dimensions:
51 x 63 cm (20 x 25 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Thunder thigh, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
241 x 153 cm (95 x 60 in)
Framed Dimensions:
250 x 158 cm (98 x 62 in)
Framed Dimensions:
250 x 158 cm (98 x 62 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Familiar ground, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
145 x 184 cm (57 x 73 in)
Framed Dimensions:
151 x 191 x 4 cm (60 x 75 x 2 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Trawler, 2020
Sculpture - Epoxy resin, wig fiberglass
74 x 54 x 20 cm (29 x 21 x 8 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph, 2020
Drawings - Pen and colored pencil on paper
8 drawings measuring
30 x 42 cm (12 x 17 in)
3 drawings measuring
30 x 21 cm (12 x 8 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Splinter cell, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
41 x 48 cm (16 x 19 in)
Framed Dimensions:
45 x 52 cm (18 x 21 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Fingers deep, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
68 x 41 cm (27 x 16 in)
Framed Dimensions:
73 x 45 cm (29 x 18 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Bike seat, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
243 x 116 cm (96 x 46 in)
Framed Dimensions:
249 x 122 cm (98 x 48 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Lipstick enthusiast, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
35 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in)
Framed Dimensions:
38 x 32 cm (15 x 13 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Half moon or empty, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
46 x 71 cm (18 x 28 in)
Framed Dimensions:
50 x 75 cm (20 x 30 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Garden tender, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
184 x 133 cm (72 x 53 in)
Framed Dimensions:
191 x 140 cm (75 x 55 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
In all my fear or glory, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
37 x 44 cm (15 x 17 in)
Framed Dimensions:
59 x 66 cm (23 x 26 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
same roof of similar, 2020
Sculpture - Steel, felt
48 x 63 x 47 cm (19 x 25 x 19 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Side Saddle, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
184 x 145 cm (72 x 57 in)
Framed Dimensions:
190 x 151 cm (75 x 59 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
1,000,000 eggs, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
165 x 130 cm (65 x 51 in)
Framed Dimensions:
173 x 136 cm (68 x 54 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Nether region (here or hell), 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
185 x 145 cm (73 x 57 in)
Framed Dimensions:
191 x 152 cm (75 x 60 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Weight of the world, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
160 x 145 cm (63 x 57 in)
Framed Dimensions:
164 x 150 cm (65 x 59 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Forever then, 2020
Sculpture - Jesmonite, net curtain, colour prints, spray paint
110 x 79 x 29 cm (43 x 31 x 12 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Fillet, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
41 x 36 cm (16 x 14 in)
Framed Dimensions:
45 x 41 cm (18 x 16 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
Tonguing the fence, 2020
Sculpture - Epoxy resin, steel
70 x 55 x 90 cm (28 x 22 x 35 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
World view, 2020
Drawing - Gouache, soft pastel on Somerset satin paper
241 x 152 cm (95 x 60 in)
Framed Dimensions:
248 x 158 cm (98 x 62 in)
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Rebecca Ackroyd
100mph
Installation View
January 22 – February 26, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Watch the full exhibition walkthrough here.
Rebecca ACKROYD
100mph
January 22 – March 5, 2021
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.
Please note that attendance will be subject to all local COVID-19 related requirements at that time. We will publish updated info prior to the event.
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