Relational Grounds:
Drawing in Space
Somewhere in LA (SILA) x A trans
Visit Us
Address
2260 E 15th Street
Los Angeles, CA
Opening Hours
July 9th
3-7pm
On view
July 9-July 22
Fri-Sun 1-6pm and by appointment
Performance by Yon Natalie in conjunction with the ABS show at Torrance Art Museum on July 16th
Contact
in@atrans.org
About
A skilled practice of observing, perceiving as well as a sensitized awareness and flexibility are intrinsic motives of art making. Working in various disciplines, the four artists Ellinor Euler, Mareike Yin-Yee Lee, Anne Metzen and Yon Natalie Mik approach these qualities differently, yet a common intersection can be identified: spatial drawing—compressed and archived in boxes, layered in space and light, additively as a composition or through a physical drawing in the form of a dance performance. Their practices present ideas of transformation and transition, interwoven relationships, criss-crossings of cultures, communities and societies.
The artists work site-specifically. Through artistic models and strategies, they explore the potential of new connecting points by imagining beyond borders and creating spaces of ambiguity. What they find and experience, what they learn and build from, calls for us to think and live together through and within contradictions.
Artists: Ellinor Euler, Mareike Yin-Yee Lee, Noel Madrid, Anne Metzen, Yon Natalie Mik, Katie Shanks, and Stephanie Sherwood
Ellinor Euler translates her structural drawings into spatial drawings as wall, floor and spatial objects made of wire. For Relational Grounds her objects will start their own game with the other positions in space.
Mareike Yin-Yee Lee’s multidisciplinary practice focuses on exploring the space in-between, inspired by her interest in how we interrelate with each other and our surroundings, the energies we emit and withhold, and subtle shifts in perception.
In her archival work Standard Euro, Anne Metzen collects observations of everyday events through the lens of their recurrence and the assumed normalization of perceiving them. For B_LA she will examine the phenomena of event clouds within the context of her built system.
Yon Natalie Mik's practice researches themes of historiography, archival absence, technological futures and ritual through the lens of the dancing body. For Relational Grounds, she presents a new work (Study #6) as part of her project titled Studies on Squats (2019-ongoing).
Somewhere in LA (SILA)
SILA is an artist collective that curates and produces exhibitions in the greater Los Angeles area. SILA provides artists a platform to engage the local artistic community and explore contemporary themes in visual art.all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
A trans
A trans is a conceptual laboratory for creative people and a platform for communication about contemporary art, architecture, urbanism and related culture with the focus on the city, space and architecture. With determination in the search for allies and like-minded individuals, architect and curator Isolde Nagel designes a program for those who value artistic architectonic visions and attentiveness to social questions. Under one year’s urban-oriented motto, international collaborators are invited to conceptualize and realize projects that reach beyond individual disciplinary boundaries. A trans promotes participatory projects in public spaces and fosters the dialogue between individuals and groups who are preoccupied with issues related to art and architecture, as well as collaborations with institutions, universities, embassies, publishers an sponsors that pursue similar objectives.
The installations and interventions go along with the investigation of cultural paradigms, contemporary lifestyles, and new experimental tendencies that impact urban practices and identities. The process is accompanied by Happy Talks, performances, happenings, music and book releases, discurses and Happy Walks.
From 2006 — 2011, the A trans Pavilion located in the Hackesche Hoefe, Berlin-Mitte was the point of departure and stable reference for all exhibition concepts which were also well-regarded from outside Berlin. A trans exhibition series at A trans Pavilion Hackesche Hoefe Berlin was sucessfully brought to an end in 2011. Over 30 exhibitions by international contributors were realized in the following series: 2006 A transparenc(it)y, 2007 A synchroni-city, 2008 An intima(cit)y, 2009 A simpli-city, 2010 A holi-city, 2011 A serendipi(ci)ty.
From 2012 on, A trans was on the move and popped up as A trans On Tour at many places and in different formats, also internationally. The series were A Maker City (2012), A Big Bang City (2013). With the series A Random City (2014) and A Recipro-city (2015) and A Private City (2016) A TRANS has been running a project space in Berlin-Moabit from 2014-2016. Since 2017 A TRANS is again working as a nomadic platform with the series A Neo City (2017), A Radical City (2018), A Minimal City (2019), A Femmes City (2020), An Iconic City (2021) and A Lost Paradise City, currently located in Berlin at Vitrine U-Zoologischer Garten (U9).
In 2016 A TRANS received the ‚Award Berlin Project Spaces and -initiatives‘ by the Berlin Senate Chancellary-Cultural Affairs.it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.