John Armleder, Lindsay Caldicott, Tomomi Yamakawa
Bringing together collages of x-rays by Lindsay Caldicott, staple sculptures by Tomomi Yamakawa, and collages on paper by John Armleder, this exhibition explores the transformation of fragments into new visual and material configurations.
Working with everyday materials but with very distinct processes, the artists return to the same gestures every day, making repetition both a fundamental part of their artistic practice and a form of meditation. Armleder’s collages bear witness to his Fluxus influence and early exploratory research. They reflect his experiments with chance, indeterminacy and various iconographic references. Yamakawa transforms ordinary stainless steel staples into delicate architectural structures with the quiet attentiveness of a Zen meditation, while Caldicott assembles fragments of photographs and radiographs into intricate, repetitive and fractal compositions.
A radiographer by profession, it was during her psychiatric hospitalization that Lindsay Caldicott began producing her collages made from a myriad of duplicated fragments, worked with a scalpel and assembled with surgical precision. Her fractal universe displays a chromatic harmony ranging from grays to sanguine tones and from golden hues to flesh colors. First presented in 2018 by the gallery, four years after the artist had passed away, her work—immediately praised by critics—is now part of the French Photography Museum, the collections of the Fondation Francès, abcd/Bruno Decharme (France), and Amr Shaker (Switzerland), among others.