Rochelle Goldberg

Goldberg’s works included in this exhibition question and blur “the material and conceptual distinctions” between natural systems and the built environment. The artist hand-rendered human-scaled sculptures in ceramic, bronze and other materials are evocative of organic forms and other motifs, enacting a psychological narrative and a meta-cartographic approach to our post-industrial age.

Taking into consideration living and non-living micro and macro-actants, Goldberg emphasises transformations, mutations and suspensions: “I am interested in where the inside and the outside collapse – the border is always at a loss… I think it is synaptic [joint, concatenation]. That one thing touches the other and the other touches the other. That vertiginous space of recovery becomes a labyrinth.”

Particularly important for this exhibition, the sense of vision as a “privileged mode of access to knowledge” is questioned and placed in crisis. Consequently, the works by Goldberg emphasise the key role played by the criteria we choose to map the relationships between humans, objects and environment, and how much of this understanding depends precisely on what means of representation we adopt.

Rochelle Goldberg (Vancouver, Canada, 1984). She lives and works in Vancouver and Berlin. She had solo show at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York (2020 and 2017); The Power Station Dallas (2019); Masaccio House San Giovanni Valderno (2018); GAMeC Bergamo (2017); and SculptureCenter in Long Island City, New York (2016). She has participated in group shows internationally, including at the Aspen Art Museum; Okayama Art Summit; The Whitney Museum, New York; Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; Barro, Buenos Aires; Kunstverein Dortmund; and The Artist’s Institute, New York.