Marc Padeu
Les derniers jours de Damien, 2020
Painting – Acrylic on canvas
200 x 280 cm (79 x 110 in)
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4, 2020 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4, 2020 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Group show
what fruit it bears
Installation View
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Peres Projects, Berlin
Mostafa Sarabi
Untitled, 2020
Painting - Acrylic on canvas
130 x 95 cm (51 x 37 in)
Nicholas Grafia
Malakas & Maganda, 2020
Painting - Acrylics and tinting paint on canvas
160 x 180 cm (63 x 71 in)
Paulo Nimer Pjota
Torre, 2020
Painting - Oil and acrylic on canvas and bronze object
200 x 155 cm (79 x 61 in)
Paulo Nimer Pjota
A semântica entre vida e morte - The semantics between life and death, 2020
Painting - Acrylic, tempera and oil on canvas
200 x 155 cm (79 x 61 in)
Shota Nakamura
Untitled (ribbon-strings-prisms), 2020
Colored pencil on paper, artist's frame
167 x 98 cm (66 x 39 in)
Framed Dimensions:
173 x 105 cm (68 x 41 in)
Stanislava Kovalcikova
Weight of light, 2020
Painting - Oil and ink on canvas
175 x 120 cm (69 x 47 in)
Marc Padeu
Les derniers jours de Damien, 2020
Painting – Acrylic on canvas
200 x 280 cm (79 x 110 in)
Emily Ludwig Shaffer
Purple Rose, 2020
Painting - Oil on canvas
41 x 31 cm (16 x 12 in)
Dalton Gata
Esculturas II, 2020
Drawing - Ink and graphite on paper
76 x 112 cm (30 x 44 in)
Framed Dimensions:
86 x 122 x 4 cm (34 x 48 x 2 in)
Xinyi Cheng
Untitled, 2018
Iwa- Enogu on paper
39 x 57 cm (15 x 22 in)
Framed Dimensions:
58 x 77 x 6 cm (23 x 30 x 2.5 in)
Dalton Gata
Esculturas I, 2020
Drawing - Ink and graphite on paper
76 x 112 cm (30 x 44 in)
Framed Dimensions:
86 x 122 x 4 cm (34 x 48 x 2 in)
Nicholas Grafia
WATCHABACK, 2018
Painting - Acrylics and gouache on hessian
70 x 50 cm (28 x 20 in)
Nicholas Grafia
Dip Toer (Having a Moment), 2020
Painting - Acrylic on canvas
68 x 56 cm (27 x 22 in)
Nicholas Grafia
Weepers' Keepers, 2020
Painting - Acrylics and tinting paint on canvas
160 x 180 cm (63 x 71 in)
Hugh Hayden
The Gatekeeper, 2020
Sculpture - Neosporin and epoxy on black locust mounted on plywood with stainless steel hardware
81 x 71 x 51 cm (32 x 28 x 20 in)
David Rappeneau
Untitled, 2019
Drawing - Colored pencil, ballpoint pen, pencil, and charcoal pencil on paper
30 x 21 cm (12 x 8 in)
Framed Dimensions:
36 x 28 x 3 cm (14 x 11 x 1 in)
Vojtěch Kovařík
Laocoon, 2020
Painting - Acrylic, spray paint and sand on canvas
220 x 200 cm (87 x 79 in)
Nicholas Grafia
Finding Black Chelsea, 2018
Painting - Acrylics and Indian ink on canvas
70 x 70 cm (28 x 28 in)
Eric N. Mack
Billow, Waist, Repose, 2019
Sculpture - Fabric, silk scarves, thread, pins and rope
196 x 479 x 140 cm (77 x 189 x 55 in)
what fruit it bears
December 4 – January 15, 2021
Opening Friday, December 4, 11–7PM
Peres Projects presents, what fruit it bears, an exhibition project presenting work by artists whose practices are radically individual, defying categorization, and yet together represent our time. We find ourselves undulating between an inward looking, defining of individuality through multi-faceted identity, and an unprecedented consciousness of the collective. Besides reinforcing the gallery’s original mission to nimbly respond to, activate and highlight practices from around the world, this exhibition presents approaches to figuration which seek equilibrium in understanding both ourselves and our collective path forward.
Many of these works were made this year and respond to the tumult that we’ve experienced globally. As we emerge from isolation, this presentation proposes a future in which personal identity is both celebrated and supported by a renewed appreciation for community and solidarity.
The selected works explore the force of the un-utterable and the variances in what we do not have language to express. Employing diverse languages of figuration, text and abstraction, the artists presented expose the body, skin and landscape as contested sites, located across both natural and cultural categories. Using the body as a departure point to think about vulnerability, the individual, community and society, these works map the figure as a projection of inner life, of cultural and social experience to express identity and the many ways that it is constructed.
We propose a move towards optimism, putting forward a belief in the importance of aesthetic works in our social process of world building. The works demonstrate how artists have been responding to the intersection of identity and community, forging ahead towards a future of honoring nature, mutual respect and interconnectivity.
Xinyi Cheng
Dalton Gata
Nicholas Grafia
Hugh Hayden
Stanislava Kovalcikova
Vojtěch Kovařík
Emily Ludwig Shaffer
Eric N. Mack
Shota Nakamura
Marc Padeu
Paulo Nimer Pjota
David Rappeneau
Mostafa Sarabi
Special thanks: Galerie Balice Hertling, Galerie PACT, Jack Bell Gallery, Mendes Wood DM, Morán Morán,
LISSON Gallery, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, and Queer Thoughts