Ahhhhhhh - Exhibitions

Campoli Presti is pleased to present Valentina Liernur’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Valentina Liernur’s works are often structured by series that denote the specificity and potential of the picture plane to bring together elements such as feminine and masculine, control and chaos, rational and instinctive, deep and superficial.

As an afterthought of her previous denim series presented in her ahh...ah... exhibition at Campoli Presti London last fall, Liernur presents a new group of works in ahhhhhhh in Paris made of a matching colour palette of gabardines, a resistant textile mostly used for trousers and uniforms. The surface is intervened on with bleach and safety pins that rehash pseudo-punk, expressionist and informalist elements deriving into a forever21, youth-inspired appearance.

White, cloudy, and diffuse areas of bleached fabric indicate the texture of a liminal space, in which any sensorial experience or expressive intention is anesthetized by its context, Paris’ fashion district the Marais. The shape of a cross points out the different geographical positions in which art operates while incidentally referencing Tapiès insisting use of it as an ancient symbol of contradiction.

The calligraphic signs, the automated use of pencils, markers, and pens, as well as the notebook-shaped frames reinforce the sequential installation of the works forming a phrase, disrupting the idea of a series as a linear and achieved body of work. Their placement asserts their own irregular temporality while questioning the possibility and the purpose of establishing one.