Carlotta Bailly-Borg / Family Affair
Jan 21 – Feb 28 2021
411 33 Gothenburg
Nevven Gallery
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Family Affair installation view. |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Family Affair installation view. |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Family Affair installation view. |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Compulsive, 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 228 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Compulsive (detail), 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 228 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Compulsive (detail), 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 228 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Family Affair installation view. |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Complex, Neurotic, Mental, 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 228 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Complex, Neurotic, Mental (detail), 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 228 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Family Affair installation view. |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Family Affair installation view. |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Family Affair installation view. |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Passive-Aggressive, 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 230 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Passive-Aggressive (detail), 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 230 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Family Affair installation view. |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Family Affair installation view. |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Frustrated, 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 230 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Frustrated (detail), 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 230 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Frustrated (detail), 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 230 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Frustrated (detail), 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 230 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Passionate, 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 230 x 75 cm). |
Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Passionate (detail), 2021 (Acrylic, linen, steel, 230 x 75 cm). |
This concoction of metaphors, eventually brings to mind the definition of liquid modernity by Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, ”in a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change”. In Family Affair, Carlotta Bailly-Borg seems to reflect too upon this concept, translating it into images sensuous and grotesque at the same time, showing us these bonds dissected, as in an ancient scientific tableaux, while, at her pleasure, she tangles and untangles the slippery strings of desire, that, woven together, define our nature.
Alina Vergnano and Mattia Lullini
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Carlotta Bailly-Borg (France, 1984) lives and works in Brussels. Her practice has taken shape, non-hierarchically, through several media, from drawing and painting on canvas to ceramics, fresco, and reverse painting on glass. In her work she makes a broad range of references collide, crash into, contaminate one another until they form a new pictorial and fictional space. Protagonists of these representations are the anthropomorphic forms she depicts: timeless, effectively depicted as medieval illuminations, non-gendered yet sexual, they are vectors of a narration which is complexly interwoven and richly layered. Bailly- Borg graduated at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy in 2010, and was an artist-in-resident in Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo (2013). She presented her work at Goldsmiths CCA, London (2020), Praz Delavallade, Paris (2020), Efremidis Gallery, Berlin (2020), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), Fondation Ricard, Paris (2019), Baltic Triennial 13, South London Gallery / Kunstihoone, Tallinn (2018), Attic, Brussels (2017), CNEAI, Chatou (2017) / Karma International, Los Angeles (2016), Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (2015), Onomatopée, Eindhoven (2015) and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013), among others.
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