Exhibition
in London / United Kingdom
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- Avery Singer: Deepfake Marcy, 2023, acrylic on canvas stretched over aluminum panel, 216.5 x 241.9 x 5.3 cm, 85 1/4 x 95 1/4 x 2 1/8 in, Courtesy Avery Singer, © Avery Singer, Photo Lance Brewer
With ‘Free Fall,’ her first solo exhibition in the UK, American artist Avery Singer reflects upon her personal experience of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and explores the wider societal impact of collective trauma and proliferating image culture and media dissemination. Based entirely upon Singer’s childhood memories, the works and architectural intervention in ‘Free Fall’ are a testament to the power of memory — and a memorial to a moment of terror and survival.
For the exhibition, Singer has created an environment that replicates her memories of the interior of the World Trade Center offices—spaces she regularly visited in the years prior to 9/11, as her mother worked in both towers of the World Trade Center. Here, Singer combines the atmospheric banalities of office life with the architectural specificity of the towers’ iconic design by Minoru Yamasaki, creating a quietly disorientating installation that is part stage-set, part minimalist sculpture. Within this environment, the artist displays new paintings that bridge the gap between the anonymous digital world and her own interior universe by merging computer-generated worlds created on programs such as Autodesk Maya, the same 3D software used to build the exhibition’s immersive architectural environment based upon Singer’s memories.
Since 2010, Singer has employed the binary language of computer programs and industrial materials to remove the trace of her own hand while engaging the great traditions of painting and the legacy of modernism. The new large-scale paintings on view in ‘Free Fall’ combine digital renderings with manual and digital airbrush techniques, liquid and solid masking, and complex layering processes.
As part of Hauser & Wirth’s global learning program, this exhibition will be complemented by an Education Lab for the first time in the London gallery. In keeping with the concept of memory in Singer’s works, visitors will be encouraged to transform their own personal positive memories into physical form through creative writing and drawing.
Gallery hours Tue-Sun 10 am – 6 pm
Exhibition Duration 10 October – 22 December 2023
Location:
Hauser & Wirth
23 Savile Row
W1S 2ET London
United Kingdom
