Johanna van der Linden & Gabriel Mello
Hold
9
March 2017
9
Mar
2017
24
Mar 2017
Gallery 2
Hold
Johanna van der Linden & Gabriel Mello
9
March 2017
9
March
2017
24
March 2017
Gallery 2
Hold is the first collaboration between Johanna van der Linden and Gabriel Mello. The installation explores the ambiguous process of recording the relationship between gravity and the corporeal. The body is deconstructed and revered through objects, traces and documentary. Mello’s sculpture records the trauma of weight on and against the body. Scattered in the space, these castings alter the navigation of the living body. van der Linden’s prints respond as the inverse of Mello’s work, existing as traces of the absent body. The corporeal is invoked through a reminder of the place it was. This is documented through the ritual of waking, leaving and recording.
Hold is the first collaboration between Johanna van der Linden and Gabriel Mello. The installation explores the ambiguous process of recording the relationship between gravity and the corporeal. The body is deconstructed and revered through objects, traces and documentary. Mello’s sculpture records the trauma of weight on and against the body. Scattered in the space, these castings alter the navigation of the living body. van der Linden’s prints respond as the inverse of Mello’s work, existing as traces of the absent body. The corporeal is invoked through a reminder of the place it was. This is documented through the ritual of waking, leaving and recording.
Johanna van der Linden
Johanna van der Linden (she/her) is a multi disciplinary artist from Naarm (Melbourne), with an ongoing interest in materiality, Catholicism, upbringing, shame and representations of the female body. Engaging with concepts around feminist new materialisms, Johanna uses materials such as latex, steel, wax, soap and family heirlooms as a point of departure in her practice which spans sculpture, installation and printmaking. Johanna uses forging, welding, casting and printing techniques to create forms and surfaces which disrupt the functionality and reverence targeted at Catholic symbolism as processes which de-sacralise and de-formalise. She is interested in the relationships between form, materiality and space, and how tensions and slippages between the sacred and profane can be manipulated, broken and re-made.She received her B.A. from Australian Catholic University, and an Honours (First Class) in Fine Arts from RMIT university. She is currently studying towards a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.