Gwenneth Boelens: At Odds

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A large space bisected with hanging fabric, two large orange prints on a wall, a wooden sound piece, and two floor sculptures

Installation view, Gwenneth Boelens: At Odds, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2017. Photo: Peter Harris Studio

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Reference Gallery
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Gwenneth Boelens
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Gwenneth Boelens is concerned with processes of perception, memory, and time; throughout her work she aims to fix the traces of physical movement in space.

Originally trained in photography, in her earlier work she used the antiquated wet plate collodion process, during which chemicals are distributed onto large glass plates and exposed to light. The resulting glass pieces capture the traces of her handling the plates during the process, and are displayed as sculptural installations in the space. More recently, Boelens has made a series of large-scale photograms, using various objects or textiles that are folded repeatedly over the duration of the exposure and create radiant fields of color. The show at the List, Boelens’s first solo museum exhibition, will present a group of new photographic works and woven, sculptural pieces. 

Gwenneth Boelens (b. 1980 in Soest, NL) lives and works in Amsterdam. Boelens’s work has been exhibited at Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; ACCA, Melbourne, and others. She attended the Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag, The Netherlands, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam

Gwenneth Boelens: At Odds is curated by Henriette Huldisch, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center.

Sponsors

Exhibitions at the List Center are made possible with the support of Jane & Neil Pappalardo, Cynthia & John Reed and Terry & Rick Stone. This program Is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. Support for Gwenneth Boelens: At Odds is also provided by the Mondriaan Fund. In-kind media sponsorship is provided by 90.9 WBUR Boston’s NPR News Station.

General operating support is provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Council for the Arts at MIT, the Office of the Associate Provost at MIT, the MIT School of Architecture + Planning, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and many generous individual donors. The Advisory Committee Members of the List Visual Arts Center are gratefully acknowledged.

Images

Detail view of a photogram print with angles and shapes in varying shades of orange, red, and white
A large space bisected with hanging fabric, two large orange prints on a wall, a wooden sound piece, and two floor sculptures
A saturated purple and white print behind glass on a white wall, a thin shelf running underneath
A large black white and lavender abstract print, a chair covered with a cloth, a large hanging white cloth with pink marks
Two orange and white prints on a wall, a black and a white shield sculpture on the floor, a wood sound piece on a stand
A corner space, two clay tablets on left wall, a large abstract print and a small yellow and black print on wall to the right
On the floor between a fabric hanging piece and a color print is a large black shield piece made of posters, plastic, metal
A large black, white, lavender print fastened to the wall with a thin metal rod across the top and another along the bottom
Installation view of a space with a large hanging cloth, two small prints, a yellow and a purple, a cloth folded over a chair
Detail of hanging fabric with lavender marks running down the middle, fingerprints revealed with forensic developer

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