Tearing

exhibition and performance at gemini, Berlin
Schönleinstraße 24
10967 Berlin DE

Januray 11 -  21 2024

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

exhibition text & works list

Tearing: interrogations
Dave Walker and Clemente Ciarrocca in conversation



production documentation, abrading (zeroing) 4, October 17, 2023
production documentation, abrading (zeroing) 4, October 17, 2023
4 (October 17th - October 31st)
2023
brass, discharge, blood, hematite, water, alizarin powder, alizarin crimson oil, charcoal, rubber headrest
31 x 14 x 12cm
Installation View, entrance to the exhibition space at gemini
Installation View, Closed Eyelight #1 (underexposed shot)
Tears (detail)
2024
water (98.7%), sodium chloride, lysozyme hydrochloride, calcium carbonate, magnesium chloride hexahydrate, potassium chloride, ic 5027 lipowax, sodium hyaluronate 1.00% sol., adrenaline tartrate, anhydrous glucose (ph eur), urea, mucin, amylase
10000ml
Contract Implied in Fact between You and the Object Your Sight (high resolution scan)
2024
archival inkjet print on cotton paper
27.9 x 42 cm
Installation View, detail
3 (July 26th - August 1st)
2023
brass, discharge, blood, hematite, alizarin powder, alizarin crimson oil, vacuum sealer polymer bag, silk
30.5 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm
3 (July 26th - August 1st)
2023
brass, discharge, blood, hematite, alizarin powder, alizarin crimson oil, vacuum sealer polymer bag, silk
30.5 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm
Installation View, Tearing Eyelight #2 (underexposed shot)
Installation View
8 (January 18th - ) (detail)
2024
brass, discharge, custom handle bits
30 x 7.5x 7.5 cm
Installation View, Tearing Eyelight #1 (underexposed shot)
Installation View, Tearing Eyelight #4 (underexposed shot)
Personal Note with Epigraph, January 15 (xerox scan) (not exhibited)
2024
archival inkjet print
29.7 x 42 cm
Installation View, way of descent to attend the closing performance
Closing performance, performance still
Closing performance, performance still
Tearing, closing performance, Recorded Text with Epilogue (digital scan) (not exhibited)
2024
archival inkjet print
29.7 x 42 cm
Closing performance, performance set up