Valerie Kolakis @ Fold Gallery

An exhibition of new work by Valérie Kolakis, her first solo presentation in the gallery.
The title of the show is taken from a text by Fred Sandback, where he is referring to assigning a certain place or volume with its full materiality, without occupying or obscuring it. Using industrially mass-produced and ubiquitous materials, present in daily life, Kolakis intends to explore the imagery of the urban space and the transitory conditions that constitute it.
This show uses sculptural works that confront our ideas of representation and reality through the exploration of domesticity, displacement and everyday objects. The underlying themes behind this project are of subtraction, vacancy and false references in the urban landscape. Comprised of elements that hint at unfinished or abandoned structures, the works in this show challenge our perception of movement within space.