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Tearing

gemini, Berlin

Januray 11 -  21 2024

exhibition text & works list
Tearing: interrogations  - Dave Walker and Clemente Ciarrocca in conversation

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In Tearing, Ciarrocca operates through the concept and subsets of the act of acquiring. The show touches upon personal bindings conceived and materialized through a body of sculptures taking the form of a fragmented and dispersed set of brass bars, their erased histories, illegible marking and humming futures working to bypass the circuitry of Representation.

Essentially and ultimately, and as their titles suggest, each bar is an index. Each bar marks, hosts, holds—or perhaps more accurately, hides—a specific period of time. A contract com/im-posed by the artist details and warns of the implications born in our want as sighters to get a hold of their opacity. Not just threading but marking (and interrupting) the line connecting legibility and individuation, Ciarrocca resurrects philosophical concerns around our patterns of acqusition and ‘taking in’, belonging and understanding, auth-enticating and relating by way of a threefold, paradoxical operation of exposure, probing and relegation of their normative conditions.

— excerpt from the exhibition text by Dave Walker