To All The Lovers And Sweethearts We Will Never Meet PRINT
   
  
Through an attitude proper to drawing, Laura Gonzalez, Gaia Persico and Jo Zerf attempt an encounter with the affective.

Their works are playful, humorous and aspirational. With sophisticated techniques deprived of trickery, they unveil something unseen and invisible before. Since their process of making is essentially intelligible, the pieces are constructed in a transparent way (glued, folded, placed next to, abandoned, played, printed, framedÉ), becoming a question of form or structure rather than one purely of metaphor.

What inspires the work in this show is a feeling of belonging somewhere that has been eroded by displacement, jet lags, temporary housings and secondary homes to the point of losing its consistency. Their reality has been left somewhat fragmented, their emotions dissociated and their experiences transitory.

And it is only through the affective that Laura Gonzalez, Gaia Persico and Jo Zerf found a way of getting through the world that they were given, redefining the rules of their relationship with it.

Laura Gonzalez has shown her precarious works in Spain, Portugal and the UK. In her drawings, homeopathic strategies are applied to any medium, from found objects to sound, to create an image in the viewerÕs head, an aphoristic declaration of love.

Gaia Persico draws nomad lines and then relates them to quotidian objects. These become impatient, rushed and touching hopes of settlement. Her work tells stories of many people and places. She took part in East International 2002 exhibition.

Jo Zerf, with her disquieting narratives, grieving and humorous at the same time, puzzles the viewer about what to do, think or feel and recognises there is nothing wrong with that state. She was shortlisted in the 2002 Jerwood Drawing Prize.


For further information please contact Laura Gonzalez, Gaia Persico or Jo Zerf.
e: loversandsweethearts@supaworld.com
t: 079 05088568

Gaia Persico. Lonely Planet. Book. 18 x 13 x 5 cm
Jo Zerf. Trust Me. Pinhole camera. Variable dimensions
Laura Gonzalez. Untitled. Pencil on paper, frame. 18 x 24 cm

    

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