PREVIEW
Thurs. March 9, 2023 | 6-8PM
Performance @ 7PM
Catinca Tabacaru Gallery is proud to announce the first solo exhibition – Gamma and Omega hold hands – by artists Catinca Malaimare at the Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London.
In London, Malaimare’s choreography takes the form of performance, sculpture, audio and film, revealing our intimate relationship with technological tools.
Bathed in a cool blue light, the central motif of the installation – an industrial roller conveyor belt on movable wheels – rests patiently in a curved shape. A multi-channel audio narrative plays from a set of speakers hidden behind disco balls as the lead characters, Gamma and Omega, slowly enter the exhibition space. For thirty minutes, the performers intertwine and labour alongside the cumbersome conveyor belt. The machine acts as another body, each taking turns at being passive and active, connected and disconnected. Machines and devices depend on bodies to function, and in real time we watch Gamma and Omega portray the tenderness and toil of this dynamic. Using poetic, spiritual gestures, Malaimare facilitates an ephemeral, fleeting moment which acknowledges our technological co-dependence.
BIOGRAPHY
Catinca Malaimare (b. 1996, Bucharest, Romania) received an MA from the Royal Academy Schools in 2022 and a BFA from the University of Creative Arts in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Emergency Ex, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest (2022) and 22.200 LEDs, Another Mobile Gallery, Romania (2020). Malaimare is working towards her first solo exhibition with Brooke Benington, London, which will take place in May 2023.
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