We proudly present "Man-made" by Alice Channer (b. 1977, lives and works in London), the artist's second solo show at Konrad Fischer Galerie.
Alice Channer introduces works recently created by using uncommon technologies in artistic practice: high-precision pleating, vacuum metallising, liquid PVC dipping. For her inkjet prints she works with images taken with her iPhone which are violently s t r e t c h e d in Photoshop, and then printed several metres long onto Heavy Crepe De Chine silk using a fashion printing company who usually print-on-demand for fabric designers. Afterwards, the silk is compressed back to a smaller size using the technique of high-precision pleating, which is usually used for clothing and interior design. Her work "Mechanoreceptor, Icicles (triple spring, triple strip)" shows 210 aluminum casts of the artist's s t r e t c h e d fingers dipped into liquid PVC - a process you'll find in tool making. The manufacturing method used for the vacuum- metallised crab, mussel and giant snail shells actually comes from packaging industries, automotive and decoration.
Excerpts from exhibition essay by Noam Segal:
Alice Channer "brings together alienated, oftentimes contradictory ingredients to form an alien body, one in which alien relations are taking place. It is almost like she gathers banished elements, putting them back together in their common exile, where they reformulate common ground and a common being... " "Their origin becomes exilic, and while they show an exterior element, Channer reforms it to become a personal envelope, a bodily shield. This alteration can also be seen in the crabs and the mussels which exist in reverse; their shield is outside, the skeleton is exterior. In her fabric works, Channer changes the scale and ratio of the interior/exterior relations we have with the world. They become alienated and unfamiliar, but at once closer, personal, and human...” (Noam Segal)
The exhibition is also accompanied by a pair of artists books, Skinned and Detouched, by Alice Channer with text by Jennifer Boyd. The books imaginatively document one stage in the production of several works on display in the galleries. In addition, a booklet with a specially commissioned essay by Noam Segal will be available at the gallery.
Alice Channer has exhibited widely over the last decade, including institutional exhibitions at: Museum Morsbroich, Germany; Whitechapel Gallery, UK; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK; La Panacée, Montpellier, France, (2018); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA and Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany (2017); Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2016); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Public Art Fund, New York (2015); Fridericianum, Kassel; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, both Germany and Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria (2014); The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire; the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy and Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (2013); and South London Gallery; Tate Britain, both UK (2012).
