Installation shots of *pinch* to zoom, 2023
Beatrice Vorster and Elli Antoniou.
Generation and Display
Curated by Amelie Mckee.
triple axel, 2023
E.A. & B.V.
mild steel structure, mild steel plates, love letter stickers, magnets, work lamps, photograph
mixtape4, 2023
B.V.
digital print, pasted
SenseOfRelief [NeutralAngels], 2023
E.A.
digital print, pasted
warmest wishes, 2023
E.A.
mild steel plate, custom wall bracket, hair pin
unreliable bodies (phenomena 1981), 2023
B.V.
aluminum vent, dissassembled gif
sound design by tape_2046
photorgaphy Joanna Wierzbicka
Beatrice Vorster and Elli Antoniou.
Generation and Display
Curated by Amelie Mckee.
triple axel, 2023
E.A. & B.V.
mild steel structure, mild steel plates, love letter stickers, magnets, work lamps, photograph
mixtape4, 2023
B.V.
digital print, pasted
SenseOfRelief [NeutralAngels], 2023
E.A.
digital print, pasted
warmest wishes, 2023
E.A.
mild steel plate, custom wall bracket, hair pin
unreliable bodies (phenomena 1981), 2023
B.V.
aluminum vent, dissassembled gif
sound design by tape_2046
photorgaphy Joanna Wierzbicka
Anna, 2023
HD, full colour and sound, 4.03 min
A collaboration for sound with tape_2046
the film was projected during the closing event Love Letters, with live sound by tpae_2046, Anna Clegg, and mixtape by Nanzhen Yang
HD, full colour and sound, 4.03 min
A collaboration for sound with tape_2046
the film was projected during the closing event Love Letters, with live sound by tpae_2046, Anna Clegg, and mixtape by Nanzhen Yang
*pinch* to zoom
17.09- 1.10.023
Generation and Display, London
* pinch * to zoom presents an ongoing collaboration between Beatrice Vorster and Elli Antoniou, who have been long-time friends and studio companions.The nature of their working process makes it virtually impossible for them to be in the studio simultaneously: B’s
sound-based practise requires attentive listening, whilst E’s process is supported by a loud
compressor. So, B would work in the mornings, and E would work at night. Both of their works are infused with each other’s delayed presence; a series of imagined love letters between friends and collaborators. Their collaborative process involves gentle mark
making, with their imagery resurfacing in each other’s pieces through digital extrusion and
glitchy repetitions.
The works embrace decay, the slow erosion of material flux. Both are concerned with
transformation of matter: presenting the parallel of adolescent metamorphosis with the shifting status of metal. The central modular system, triple axel (2023), draws together these
fictions and presents a site. The gallery space is reimagined as a public square - the site of encounters, of spending time, of loitering, of making your mark and reading traces of others. It is where teenagers spend
time outside of domestic or school spaces. Where metals rust and glass scratches. These
sediments of public spaces presented as layers washing over each other revealing varying stages of decay and accumulation as they fall in and out of synch.
Works by Beatrice Vorster & Elli Antoniou
Curated by Amélie Mckee
Supported by The Elephant Trust
Exhibition text by Amlie Mckee