Exhibition

LISTE BASEL 2021 - SAELIA APARICIO: Bio-speculations for an Expanded Cohabitation

20 Sep 2021 – 26 Sep 2021

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Mon, 20 Sep
10:00 – 18:00
Tue, 21 Sep
10:00 – 18:00
Wed, 22 Sep
10:00 – 18:00
Thu, 23 Sep
10:00 – 18:00
Fri, 24 Sep
10:00 – 18:00
Sat, 25 Sep
10:00 – 18:00
Sun, 26 Sep
10:00 – 18:00

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Bio-speculations for an expanded cohabitation is a solo project by the Spanish, London-based artist Saelia Aparicio specially commissioned by The RYDER for LISTE 2021.

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The city is in a lockdown for the third time due to a new variant of COVID 19 and just a few days ago, Brexit broke a fifty-year-old relationship with Europe. The city is lonely and isolated, the people is asked to stay home, but in East London at Carpenters Estate more than 360 houses are completely empty (of human life). In the borough with the highest rates of homeless in Europe, a significative amount of buildings are empty.

Bio-speculations for an expanded cohabitation is a solo project by the Spanish, London-based artist Saelia Aparicio specially commissioned by The RYDER for LISTE 2021. The project is inspired by the three blocks of Carpenters Estate located in front of the artist’s studio and continues her long-time research on this area.

Defying the perception of social housing and its evolution, this proposal offers a speculative reality where other species and other empathies can partake. Carpenters Estate is located in Stratford, East London, adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Built in 1967 and formed of low-rise social housing and three tower blocks, this estate was built to replace a series of terraced Victorian houses inhabited by workers of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, destroyed during the air raids in the Second World War.

Since the Olympic Games in 2012, the estate has been subject to refurbishment and redevelopment by the Newham Council. Currently, the majority of the residents have been decanted from the towers which are now abandoned and surrounded by one of the highest gentrified areas of the city: Hackney Wick and Sugar Island.

Bio-speculations for an expanded cohabitation will display the fantasy of imagining ourselves as other species, as internal organs forming a building through a series of murals, sculptures, paintings, drawings and films. The booth will imagine and alternative future for the estate in which abject species and fragile organisms will cohabit creating a living building, a huanoid, a mutant space.

A mural on the wall will reproduce at 1:1 scale the façade of the building combinig rescued materials such as windows and cladding parts from similar buildings with wall drawings and paintings from the artist. These images will depict dissident multi-organic environments in which a new future can occur and a group of floor-based sculptures will reinterpret intrinsic objects to the building such as pipes and doors.

SAELIA APARICIO

Saelia Aparicio is a London-based Spanish artist who completed her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2015. In 2019, Aparicio won Generaciones 2019, one of the most prestigious awards for emerging artists in Europe, and was commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery to make the film ‘Green Shoots’ for their General Ecology symposium and research project, ‘The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants’ in London. Solo exhibitions include: ‘Protesis para invertebrados’, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (2019); ‘Smudging Gooey Airs’, Sarabande Foundation, London (2018); ‘Cadena Atrofica’, Murcia, Spain in collaboration with designer Attua Aparicio from Silo Studio (2018); ‘Your Consequences Have Actions’, The Tetley, Leeds (2017); ‘Peaks & Troughs’, TURF Projects, London (2017); ‘Burning With Joy’, ASC Gallery, London (2016); and ‘Espeleologia epidermica’, Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain (2015). Group shows include: ‘Retour Sur Mulholland Drive’ (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), La Panacée, Montpellier, France (2017); ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, and The ICA, London (2016), and ‘A Mysterical Day’ (curated by Tai Shani), Serpentine Gallery public programme, London (2016). Aparicio has undertaken the following residencies: FIBRA Platform, Mexico (2019); The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK (2019); New Contemporaries Studio Bursary with Sarabande: The Lee Alexander Mcqueen Foundation (2017); Sema Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea (2016); Salzamt Aterlierhaus, Linz, Austria (2014); and Joan Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2012).

CuratorsToggle

Rafael Barber Cortell

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Saelia Aparicio

Taking part

The RYDER Projects

Madrid, Spain

LISTE – Art Fair Basel

LISTE – Art Fair Basel

Basel, Switzerland

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