Daria Irincheeva
Esperanza Mayobre
John Szlasa
Ruy Sanchez Blanco
Sergey Sapozhnikov
Curated by Daria Irincheeva
From the press release Cities seen from space can remind us of huge beehives inhabited by millions of individuals working together. Bringing the perspective back to the individual's eye-level, and bringing time back to day-by-day routine, one can wonder how much these human architectural and infrastructural environments affect us on an individual and species-based level, evolutionarily. This exhibition brings together several artists the works of whom are largely influenced by the environment they find themselves living in.
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UK-based curatorial collective VERBureau are pleased to present their latest exhibition, Who Owns The Cone? at Likky Ruph.
The participating artists Kaloyan Ivanov, Rachel Sharpe and Carrie Gooch will respond to the socio-political history of ice cream and the city's inhabitants. These artists are concerned with the intersections of the social, political and cultural landscapes of the past and present. Sharpe and Gooch will present their research through digital works-in-progress, whilst Ivanov will create a new iteration of his participatory fabric piece Void Simulacrum, which encourages visitors to create their own spaces – both discursive and physical.
The title Who Owns the Cone? is a playful nod to the many cities that claim to have invented the ice cream cone, of which New York is one. A source of inspiration for the show was the story of Elizabeth Irwin, an openly lesbian, Brooklyn-born pioneer of progressive education who used a local ice cream parlour as a tolerant and neutral meeting space to establish the self-organised educational institution Little Red School in 1921.
At a time when society feels at its most unwelcoming, barricading borders and exacerbating a fear of the unknown, VERBureau would like to introduce the spirit of Irwin’s ice cream parlours to Likky Ruph and create a space where the exchange of opinions, freedom of expression and tolerance towards different viewpoints and backgrounds is championed.
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