Rachel de Joode

Rachel de Joode’s sculptures embody the digital age’s ambivalent relationship to the material. Today’s overflow of digital imagery can make us forget what pictures are actually made of and what we in fact are looking at. De Joode destabilizes the relationship between surface and three-dimensional form. What at first glance might be interpreted as skin or internal organs turns out to be photographs of artists’ materials such as pigment and clay. In the series Playing Me, pleated, folded, and perforated materials also play on the relationship between the roles of the artist and the art object, which are interlinked by the fact that they make each other possible.

Rachel de Joode (b.1979 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands) is a Berlin-based multi-media artist. De Joode’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows. Recent presentations at ZKM Karlsruhe (2017), Photoforum Pasquart in Biel/Bienne (2017) ICA Philadelphia (2017).

Artwork

Playing Me #1
2018
Enameled ceramic, fine art print on canvas
Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christophe Gaillard

Playing Me #2
2018
Enamelled ceramic, fine art print on canvas
Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christophe Gaillard

Playing Me #9
2018
Enamelled ceramic, fine art print on canvas
Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christophe Gaillard

Stacked Sculpture I
2017
Inkjet print on Dibond, steel
215 x 84 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christophe Gaillard

Stacked Sculpture II
2017
Inkjet print on Dibond, steel
210 x 83 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Christophe Gaillard

Venue

Göteborgs Konsthall

 

Image: Rachel de Joode, Stacked Sculpture I & II, 2017. Photo: Hendrik Zeitler