EXHIBITIONS

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Marta Dyachenko & Pyrolator

Taking its name from a recent manifestation by German sound sculptor Pyrolator, the exhibition Silent Oceans realises a conversation in concrete form and evocative sound to contemplate the tension between our natural landscape and how it is shaped by the constructed.

With Silent Oceans, sound artist Kurt “Pyrolator” Dahlke continues his consistently reductive approach toward a practice of concentration and conscious perception. The result is a counter-space to the sensory overload of everyday life: an invitation to linger in listening, to feel the passing of time, and to engage fully with the subtle nuances of sound.

Silent Oceans is not a silent sea, but a listening sea that reveals its complexity in detail. The installation completely dispenses with striking effects and instead focuses on a contemplative experience. Silent Oceans does not respond to external movement, but invites inner resonance: it is not a narrative sound piece, but an acoustic environment that unfolds organically – without a goal and far removed from linear dramaturgy.

Marta Dyachenko’s studies in architecture and sculpture shape a practice which circumvents our build environment, in a nuanced and reductive vocabulary, to uncover the beauty and horror of its logic. Often taking the appearance of a Machete, she models these ghostly forms which fictionalize manufactured reality and it’s means of production. This is achieved through the subversion of base materials, concrete and steel, in nuanced reductions.

Opening reception, Thursday February 12, 19:00-22:00

ymono studio

ymono is the creative studio of potter Markus Kleine-Vehn, a Berlin based artist whose work pushes at the boundaries of tradition to realise bold and innovative ceramic sculpture. Playfully moving between studio pottery and contemporary design, provocative effects are achieved through visceral colour combinations and exaggerated contours to realise a distinct production of resonant ceramic bodies.

In this focused exhibition, ymono presents recent production which takes reference from traditional Japanese pottery radicalized with pop elements. In Riff, porous coral reef like surfaces are amongst a variety of glaze effects the artist is ‘riffing’ off, sampling idiosyncratically from the ancient and the mass produced, moving between technique and symbolic reference, nomadically incorporating styles and methods in his contemporary output.

Opening reception, Thursday February 12, 19:00-22:00

Aigana Gali, Trevor Good, Olaf Hajek, Aniana Heras, Travis Jeppesen,
Zoe Kreye, Merlin Luczynski, Tiziana La Melia, Raer Scents, ymono studio

At this New Moon, Seíō Centre invites you to experience exquisite works of contemporary creation by an exceptional group of artists. Through their individual studio practices, each utilise the processes of art to express forms of transformation. Often personal in nature, these processes are shared through their deliberate choice of evocative materials and form.