A new commission by the Cologne-based artist Thea Djordjadze, her first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. These new works were produced during an onsite residency at Studio Voltaire, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, London.

Djordjadze’s working method draws from literature and music as well as art historical references from early Modernism and Surrealism. This is combined with a strong sense of process and an awareness of the potential authority and phenomenology of the art object. Often working with every day and found materials such as fabric, glass, wood, metal and ceramics, the artist typically makes small to medium scale organic constructions that combine an almost ‘Beuysian’ shamanistic or ritualistic use of materials with the formalism of early modernist sculptural objects. Drawing on Surrealist juxtapositions of everyday objects and the narrative conceit of a shamanistic presentation of materials, the resulting works are psychologically effecting and uncomfortable.