First Topographies / First Geometries

“ In First Geometries (2018), the index fingers of assorted men’s right-hand leather gloves fitted with a hidden motor move and point in the air. A negative to this piece is First Topographies (2018), in which clay fingers with black-painted nails are suspended in mid-air with strings and magnets as they point down, seemingly mocking the determination of their very gesture. In each of the two videos in the adjacent room, the artist draws a sketch of the calculations discussed, then cuts and arranges it into a three-dimensional paper object using neodymium magnets…”

Hili Perlson for Frieze Magazine

Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, The Common Ancestor / 2018

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