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Surrogate Painteen
Donna Huanca, Berlin, 2 September - 28 October 2016

Surrogate Painteen Donna Huanca

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Press release

I clambered over mounds and mounds

Of polystyrene foam

And fell into a swimming pool

Filled with fairy snow

And watched the world turn day-glo

you know you know

The world turned day-glo you know

I wrenched the nylon curtains back

As far as they would go

And peered through perspex window panes

At the acrylic road

I drove my polypropolene

Car on wheels of sponge

Then pulled into a wimpy bar

To have a rubber bun

The X-rays were penetrating

Through the laytex breeze

Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves

Fell from the rayon trees

X-Ray Spex - Day The World Turned Day-Glo

 

For Huanca, the body and skin are an ongoing focus and she employs them as both pure surface and material. Cosmetics function as a medium of transformation and performers are painted from head to toe. They are choreographed to move glacially, in a meditative state, through her installation environments which consist of paintings, sculptures and ephemera. The performers’ presence both activates her studio works and relate to dissimulation, fusion, and camouflage, furnishing the beginnings of a poetic narrative on the fragmentation of identity.

 

Huanca’s Skin Paintings combine documentation of past performances, overlaid with thick, gestural painting created in a trance-like state. On their own, they exist as microcosms of performance, incorporating both images of the body and are overpainted with pigment camouflage. Within the context of the larger installation, the Skin Paintings create both points of reference and architecture for the performance.

 

Huanca’s totemic sculptures merge tactile materials such as clothing, natural and synthetic fibres and other cultural artifacts, which are then deconstructed and reassembled to create delicate abstract compositions. Using both the body and its armor as an abstract material in this way, Huanca reveals the underlying primordial and mammalian character of the garment and its relationship to our body as a form of cultural transmission.

 

Donna Huanca (b. 1980, Chicago, USA) studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt as well as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has been the recipient of the DAAD Artist Frankfurt and a Fulbright research grant. Recent exhibitions include the Malmö Konsthalle, Moma PS1 in New York and kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga oraganized bz Art In General, New York. Upcoming exhibitions include LAND Contemporary Public Art Project, Los Angeles, Streams of Warm Impermanence, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, and solo exhibition Scar Cymbals at the Zabludowicz Collection, London.

Installation Shots
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Donna Huanca Surrogate Painteen Installation View September 2 - October 28, 2016 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Adrian Parvulescu
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Donna Huanca Surrogate Painteen Installation View September 2 - October 28, 2016 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Adrian Parvulescu
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Donna Huanca Surrogate Painteen Installation View September 2 - October 28, 2016 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Adrian Parvulescu
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Donna Huanca Surrogate Painteen Installation View September 2 - October 28, 2016 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Adrian Parvulescu
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Donna Huanca Surrogate Painteen Installation View September 2 - October 28, 2016 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Adrian Parvulescu
Press
  • Performance view of Donna Huanca's exhibition "Surrogate Painteen" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2016)

    Seven gallery shows you shouldn't miss during Berlin Art Week!

    Artlead, September 15, 2016
  • Portrait of Donna Huanca by Kevin Mason.

    Ritual Resurrection

    Arielle Bier , Sleek Magazine, September 6, 2016
  • Performance view of Donna Huanca's exhibition "Surrogate Painteen" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2016)

    Spotlight on: Donna Huanca

    Quinn Harrelson, Cultured Magazine, September 1, 2016
  • Performance view of Donna Huanca's exhibition "Surrogate Painteen" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2016)

    Artists who caught our eye: Donna Huanca

    Xymna Engel , Monopol Magazin, September 1, 2016

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