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| Aleana Egan |
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| Born in 1979 in Dublin, Ireland, Aleana Egan lives and works in Berlin and Dublin. Her practice is engaged in a process of intuitive translation. Creating sculptures, videos and drawings, Egan evolves a series of interpretive responses to her surroundings and literary influences. Her abstract line sculptures crafted out of painted card and tape or thin metal strips trace paired-down forms, which evoke a sense of the objects or sites that have inspired them while intimating the artist’s own inner musings about these sources. Her works exude a particular atmospheric quality that is born out of her careful attention to detail. For her on-going video project “Readings”, Egan records close acquaintances as they read out passages from their favorite literary texts, involving herself into these works by limiting the videos’ color palette or inserting one of her pieces into the background. For the 5th Berlin Biennial, Egan created “ended casually in the water” (2008), which borrows its title from an Iris Murdoch novel. Hung across the Neue Nationalgalerie, the delicate undulating structure appears as an aerial line drawing in turquoise blue, breaking up the strict architecture of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic building.
Aleana Egan has had recent solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2008), Mary Mary, Glasgow (2006 and 2005) and Assembly Gallery, Glasgow (2003). Her work has also been shown as part of the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008), “Eccentric Growth” at Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin, (2006) and “Take it further (Part 2)” at Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (2005).
Aleana Egan is represented by Mary Mary, Glasgow and Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin. |
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