Nathalie Karg Gallery is pleased to present a collaborative installation featuring work by Dorian Gaudin (b.1986) and Charlotte vander Borght (b.1988) for the 2024 Edition of ARTISSIMA in Turin, Italy.
Gaudin and vander Borght create a kinetic installation-an absurd mechanical play and self-moving sculpture inspired by elements of hostile architecture. Their joint sculpture evokes a sense of loneliness and ghostly
presences, reflecting the unsettling nature of the mundane and the latent dangers of proximity. Mechanical outbursts skirt the line between self-harming and self-pleasuring.
Gaudin's work is often imbued with ambiguity whilst preserving his reverence for humour as he navigates thetension between play and struggle and drawing on a kinetic and industrial component aesthetic. Vander Borght's work reinterprets the materials and structures belonging to the realm of industrial production, prompting sculptures that are both brutal and poetic.
Drawing on the history of design, painting and architecture, vander Borght crafts sculptures that originate from the forms found in industrial landscape, the factory-made assembly line, and transforms them into organic shapes that hint at metamorphosis. Meanwhile, Gaudin's pieces convey a sense of violence and humour through his manipulation of materials, particularly in the way he shapes aluminum sheets. Vander Borght resonates with this rawness, layering her sculptures with colors that evoke a stark, industrial, and brutalist aesthetic. Both artists cite the film Crash as a crucial influence, exploring the literal and emotional impacts of collision and the eroticization of danger in their work.
