Components
‘Components’ by Awst & Walther brings together four years of sculpture and performance work, shedding light on ongoing thematic preoccupations and material attitudes in the artists’ work. This group of works reveals an acute fascination with corporeality, temporality and spatiality, and the experiences and situations that occur from different combinations of these aspects.
The artists employ an array of unconventional and alternately austere and sumptuous materials - gelatine, glass, ice, gold, feathers, tar, concrete, neon, are all used in making painting, sculpture and performance to explore our attitudes towards beauty and human behaviour. Altogether the exhibition offers a sense of the artists' unique approach to art-making today, a collaborative task focused on creating knowledge and meaning, towards a better understanding of our world.
Manon Awst (b. 1983, Wales) and Benjamin Walther (b.1978, Dresden), have shown at Junge Kunst (Wolfsburg), Kunstraum Aarau (Switzerland), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Nassauischer Kunstverein (Wiesbaden), Cass Sculpture Foundation (Goodwood) and the National Museum of Wales (Cardiff).
