Davina Semo / SILK FLOSS
September 15 – November 13, 2016
ribordy contemporary | Boulevard d’Yvoy 7b
rc | Boulevard d’Yvoy 13
CH – 1205 Geneva
Exhibition’s view, image ©Annik Wetter
Ribordy Contemporary is pleased to present SILK FLOSS, an exhibition of new work by Davina Semo.
A triangle begins wide, high, outstretched, catch-all, and it moves downwards, loses mass, pulls the
eye, tapering, cuts, slides, tightens. The shape carries a kind of emotional charge, a melancholy. The
triangle ends in a point. Aims down. Into the floor. Through the floor. I look down, as directed, to the
floor. Nothing. And my eyes come back up. A triangle sliced in half. Teetering still, on a point, but
bisected down what was its center, the long side is tall, with form. More elegant, in a way.
eye, tapering, cuts, slides, tightens. The shape carries a kind of emotional charge, a melancholy. The
triangle ends in a point. Aims down. Into the floor. Through the floor. I look down, as directed, to the
floor. Nothing. And my eyes come back up. A triangle sliced in half. Teetering still, on a point, but
bisected down what was its center, the long side is tall, with form. More elegant, in a way.
The concrete sculptures in this exhibition are made by both covering the surface and impregnating the
surface, variously. I like the idea of the works being a kind of mental landscape. I’m seduced by many
of the raw materials themselves. Ropes and leather, that figure power and lust. Steel and glass, pipes
and rods; a horizontal cross, a horse bit, a hard line, a barring off.
surface, variously. I like the idea of the works being a kind of mental landscape. I’m seduced by many
of the raw materials themselves. Ropes and leather, that figure power and lust. Steel and glass, pipes
and rods; a horizontal cross, a horse bit, a hard line, a barring off.
It’s difficult to ignore the natural world in Northern California, where I’ve been for almost a year. Driving
down Cesar Chavez Street, I’m seduced by the young trees with chunky trunks, covered in wicked
looking spikes. Nowadays, silk floss trees are cultivated mostly for ornamental purposes.
down Cesar Chavez Street, I’m seduced by the young trees with chunky trunks, covered in wicked
looking spikes. Nowadays, silk floss trees are cultivated mostly for ornamental purposes.