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Erika Vogt: Speech Mesh - Drawn OFF

March 8
— May 18, 2014
Opening: March 7, 2014.
La Friche Belle de Mai, R+5, 41 rue Jobin 13003 Marseille
From Tuesday to Sunday 1pm to 7pm
Night on last friday of each month till 10 pm.

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Exhibition view, Erika Vogt: Speech Mesch - Drawn OFF, © Photo Aurélien Mole

Triangle France presents the first solo exhibition in France of American artist Erika Vogt (Born in 1973 in New Jersey, lives and works in Los Angeles). The exhibition is co-commissioned with The Hepworth Wakefield (UK) and has been conceived as a single exhibition spanning two institutions.
Vogt’s site-specific gallery installations are realized as dynamic image fields in which sculpture, video, photography, painting and drawing are interwoven. Drawing on her background in experimental filmmaking, Vogt’s installations can be read as cinematic environments in which the layered quality of her films is expanded into physical space. An intrinsic relationship between the sculptural object and the screen-based image permeates all of Vogt’s work. Her willful desire to keep both in flux sees images and motifs reoccur across the various mediums she employs, evoking the construction of language.

Vogt’s Speech Mesh – Drawn OFF brings a group of plaster sculptures, suspended across the space in free-floating arrangements, into dialogue with a series of video works and drawings. The plaster-cast object is a recurring motif in Vogt’s practice, often based on recognisable functional forms – a screw, an anchor, a tooth – though made strange through changes in scale and colour. The indeterminate materiality of plaster is echoed in the way in which Vogt displays the sculptures; suspended from ropes and anchored in place with other cast forms, they allude to the potential for movement and change. Vogt has spoken about method of display as akin to raising the ground and bringing the sculptures into more direct contact with the viewer, suggesting an intrinsic animistic quality evoked through notions of tactility and empathy with the sculptural object. This work draws from the artist’s recent interest in the idea of the debris field and her desire to create a constellation of heterogeneous objects that reject direct interpretation or the mediation of a set meaning. Signs are presented to the viewer as a series of reiterations which deviate from a straight trajectory and create disorientation. This scattering effect is particularly manifest in the videos, where light and objects appear, move, and disappear while also being repeated in the drawings covering the walls of the gallery.

Vogt’s videos are created through the layering of both original and found images and footage that echoes the free-floating field of signs presented by the sculptural installation. Her films often take on a gothic or esoteric darkness that hints towards an anxiety around the potentiality of transition from one element to another. Time, empathy and the desire to accept the playful quality of this surreal landscape of signs allow the viewer to project their own readings and language onto this field of information.

Erika Vogt (b. 1973 East Newark, NJ) received her BFA from New York University and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Erika Vogt has recently had solo exhibitions at the New Museum, New York, (2013), Simone Subal Gallery, New York, (2012) and Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, (2011). Her work has been included in a number of group exhibitions at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (as part of “2010,” the 75th Whitney Biennial; 2010); Foam, Amsterdam, (2011); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2011); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR (2012); the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (as part of the Los Angeles Biennial “Made in LA 2012”; 2012) and Frieze Films, London, (2013).
She lives and works in Los Angeles.

The exhibition Speech Mesh – Drawn OFF is curated by Triangle France as part of the 2014 program of Le Cartel. It is produced in collaboration with Sextant et plus.
Erika Vogt’s videos are supported by EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY.

Erika Vogt: Speech Mesh - Drawn OFF

Curators
Andrew Bonacina (Chief curator, The Hepworth Wakefield), Céline Kopp (Director, Triangle France).

Production :
Triangle France in collaboration with Sextant et plus.

Co-production :
Le Cartel, a federation of six visual art organizations: Astérides, le Dernier Cri, Documents d’artistes,
Group/ART-O-RAMA, Sextant et plus, and Triangle France,
The Hepworth Wakefield.

Sponsors & Partners
Ministère de la Culture, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur,
Conseil Régional Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur,
Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhône,
Ville de Marseille,
EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
ArtAV,
Overduin & Co, Los Angeles.
Simone Subal Gallery
Chateau La Coste
Picto méditerranée.

Media partners :
COTE Magazine, Les Inrockuptibles, ParisArt, le Quotidien de l’Art.

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Exhibition view, Erika Vogt: Speech Mesh - Drawn OFF, Triangle France, Marseille, March 8 - May 18 2014 © Photo Aurélien Mole

Exhibition view, Erika Vogt: Speech Mesh - Drawn OFF, Triangle France, Marseille, March 8 - May 18 2014

Exhibition view, Erika Vogt: Speech Mesh - Drawn OFF, Triangle France, Marseille, March 8 - May 18 2014 © Photo Aurélien Mole