Spring for a Ground
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Magali Reus presented a new body of work co-commissioned by
SculptureCenter; the Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire, UK; Westfälischer
Kunstverein in Münster, Germany; and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in
Turin, Italy. Spring for a Ground was Reus' first solo museum
exhibition in the United States.
Colliding the macro logic of daily architecture with the
more microscopic or metaphorical projections of a body inhabiting space,
Reus’ exhibition turns focus to the physical and psychic space of the
street curb. Although rendered abstractly, Reus’ curbs contain fragments
of objects and textures: they appropriate the logic of urban terrain but
remain unnerving in their persistent repetition of partially rendered, and
uncannily placed domestic forms. Linked with the metaphorical idea of an
epidermis, they are surface barriers between external and internal worlds.