DEVILS ON HORSEBACK
Image: Courtesy of Lukas Heerich
032c Workshop is pleased to present “DEVILS ON HORSEBACK,” a group show curated by Claire Koron Elat and Shelly Reich including works by Tom Burr, Jesse Darling, Lewis Hammond, Lukas Heerich, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Michel Majerus, Kayode Ojo, and Ryan Trecartin.
Garments are beliefs to be worn. Clothes dress our intimacies, disguise what we are ashamed of, and enhance what we are proud of. They wrap our existences, not by affixing a superficial price tag or logo to who you are, by functioning as material entities that accompany us.
The seemingly trivial act of dressing and undressing is a subconscious ritual shaped by our tastes, social belongings, and capital in multiple forms. Although most of us participate in (high) fashion through looking more than through wearing — a disposition of the picto-fetishizing age we operate in — fashion is sensual, and garments are there to be touched and not just gawked at on a screen. Our bodies inhabit and animate fabrics and are thus living parts of the sartorial archive, transforming the living body into an archive itself.
“DEVILS ON HORSEBACK” centers on archives and bodies and their relation to garments and broader fashion practices. Fashion's material manifestation gives physical body to non-physical things, keeping a textile record of cultural paradigms, personal experience, collective consciousness.
While some of the works on view emulate the language of trend cycles, we propose that they — and fashion in general — are not just based on fads. The garment is an archive inhabited daily, but the cultural significance of our clothing is continuous, un-removable. Our stories are entwined with those of fashion, told through tailored tissues.
“DEVILS ON HORSEBACK” is on view at 032c Workshop located at Kantstrasse 149, 10623 Berlin. It is open to the public Monday through Saturday from 11am – 7pm.
Installation view “DEVILS ON HORSEBACK” curated by Claire Koron Elat and Shelly Reich
Atiéna R. Kilfa, Untitled (Window) (from You Look Lonely Series), 2021, Courtesy the artist, NEUE ALTE BRÜCKE
Michel Majerus, Ohne Titel 590, 2000, Acrylic on cotton, 60 x 60 cm, © Michel Majerus Estate, 2022. Private Collection. Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Installation view “DEVILS ON HORSEBACK” curated by Claire Koron Elat and Shelly Reich
Lewis Hammond, Der Rücken (The Back), 2019, Courtesy the artist, Aaron Bogart
Lukas Heerich, Untitled, 2022, Courtesy the artist
Installation view “DEVILS ON HORSEBACK” curated by Claire Koron Elat and Shelly Reich
Kayode Ojo, Overdressed (Emerald), 2022, Courtesy the artist, Sweetwater
Lukas Heerich, Untitled Peel, 2023, Courtesy the artist
Tom Burr, Untitled, 2011, Courtesy the artist, Galerie Neu (left) and Jesse Darling, Banner, 2022, Courtesy the artist, Galerie Sultana Antoine (right)
Ryan Trecartin, Center Jenny, 2013, Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers
