White Woman by the Seaside by Lindsay Lawson

Name: White Woman by the Seaside by Lindsay Lawson
Start: 2024-11-07T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-07T21:00:00+01:00
Location: C. Sundtsgate 55, 5004 Bergen, Norway

Schedule

Thu Nov 07 2024 at 05:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

C. Sundtsgate 55, 5004 Bergen, Norway | Bergen, HO

Aldea is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Lindsay Lawson.
Opening: Thursday November 7th, 5-9pm
Exhibition: November 7th - December 1st
Open Wednesday - Sunday, 1-4pm
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Sitting alone that balmy afternoon, she thinks to herself in sentences, as if she might record those thoughts as prose. As if anyone would care to read them.

There is, in all things of the sea, a power that beckons and warns, a force both yielding and immutable, as if the great hand of God had set its tide to wash away our certainties with each passing wave. I stand here in my time share, my gaze fixed upon a painting—a seascape now half-consumed by brine and barnacles, as though some ancient ocean spirit had claimed it back for its own. In that swathed, sea-ravaged canvas, I see not mere colors or forms, but a portal—a glimpse into the mystery and wildness of the waters that have always called to me. But I should get that painting fixed. I wonder if people restore paintings on fiverr.
I’m sitting in a rocking chair inherited from my mother’s beach house. It holds an old, familiar shape. How often have I sought this seat of solace, that gentle cradle of tradition, hoping that its embrace might still my soul’s tempests? And yet, here it stands as if to mock my longing, reminding me that the comforts I covet are themselves touched by edge and danger. The sea, endless in its mysteries, bears no allegiance to my quiet longings or fiscal prudence. It moves, relentless, eroding, reclaiming, reshaping all it touches—like time itself, which strips bare our most cherished certainties, leaving only fragments to float upon its waves. Ah, that I could settle myself in this chair, face forward, and turn my phone off. I’ve donated enough money this quarter and I simply want to drink my tea and finally be understood. Appreciated even.
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Born in the United States and living in Berlin, Lindsay Lawson’s (1982) work spans a variety of media and a particular research-process of contractual legal agreements she called ‘Arrangements’. Her practice often deals with the presence and agency of objecthood in virtual and physical spaces. Lawson’s most recent work breaks apart images and text to leave the view with inherently flawed partial messages in the form of paintings and sculptures.
Lawson holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has participated in several prestigious residencies, including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan (2013); 1646, The Hague (2016); Trinity Square Video, Toronto (2015, 2017); and the Thun Ceramic Residency, Bolzano (2017).
Lindsay Lawson has presented her work in numerous exhibitions and performances, including A Side / B Side: Alizée Lenox and Els Vandeweyer play Lindsay Lawson's Organum, a performance at Bärenzwinger Berlin; Apophany!, a solo exhibition at Efremidis Gallery, Berlin; and Into the Drift and Sway, a group exhibition at Bärenzwinger Berlin. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions such as grounded at Berthold Pott, Cologne; Studio Berlin at Berghain, Berlin; ongoing schmidt pick at carlier | gebauer, Berlin; Which Gregg Araki film are you? at Haus Wien, Vienna; Squish at Efremidis Gallery, Berlin; L'artista Paninaro at Pina, Vienna; The Garden, a sculpture park at Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Klosterneuberg; Garlands of Repose at MAUVE, Vienna; Pointland at Galerie Conradi, Hamburg; Self-Fulfilling Prophecy at Piktogram, Warsaw; and My Body Doesn't Like Summer at Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin.
Additional group exhibitions include Spirit Chair at CODE Art Fair, Copenhagen; Another Visit to the Sculpture at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; Every Other Thing at Galéria Krokus, Bratislava; Non-Target Unknown, a two-person exhibition at Platform Stockholm, Stockholm; The Intention of Things at Trafó Gallery, Budapest; and Vessel in Motion at Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig. Her solo exhibitions include Wokeness at Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna; and NOPE at Gillmeier Rech, Berlin, while her work has also appeared in Skip Tracer, a group exhibition at M. LeBlanc, Chicago.
Lawson is represented by Efremidis Gallery in Berlin.
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This event is supported by Bergen Kommune & Kulturrådet