past > 2012 > transfer > detail
natasha rosling
‘transfer’
curator christine van den bergh
For this solo show, Natasha Rosling has made a site-specific
installation for the unique architecture of the outLINE space. 
Large angular wooden shapes span each wing of the gallery intersected 
by long sleeve like, oblong tubes. These incorporate fabrics designed
from images of coloured, fractal textures - one facet of the artist's
exploration into surfaces viewed through microscopes. This overall
structure could be seen as an abstract sketch of a rocky landscape,
inviting the viewer to move around.  Yet within this, what is
important is how the representation of an object’s surface becomes
translated and shifts function. In this way, Rosling plays with
conflicting ideas between ‘documentation’ and ‘decoration’.

Characteristically Rosling's work toys with notions of scale and
gravity, and forming the basis of this work more particularly, is an
exaggerated notion of support. The leaning wooden structures and their
textile connectors share the mutual function of 'holding each other
up', balancing weight and repeating in an animated network, somehow
both cumbersome and delicate.  Although the artist does not intend the
installation to be directly climbed through, the scales of each
component have been deciphered in relation to the ergonomics of the
body, allowing the viewer to become an integral part of it.

Natasha Rosling [London, 1985] studied at Chelsea College of Art and
Design, London and the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. Most recently
she has exhibited at international  institutions including OCAT Center
ofContemporary Art, China, with Vision Forum; Sculpture Space, Utica,
United States; Badjidala Centre of Contemporary Art, Mali; W139,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is Represented by Hidde van Seggelen 
Gallery, London.

Currently, Rosling is developing a new body of work for 'Blow-Up', a
long term programme of  interventions and public events curated by
Daniele Balit and Christope Bruno, for the virtual space of the Jeu De
Paume, Paris.
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