FRIEZE Sculpture 2024
The Regent’s Park’s English Gardens, London
Date: 17 September – 27 October, 2024
Céline Condorelli will be showing Untitled (to Rosa Luxemburg), a sculpture inspired by her explorations into playground equipments, alongside “After Work”, a video work developed in collaboration with Ben Rivers and with narration of Jay Bernard. Both works tackle Céline’s interest about the intricate relationship between work and free time and her probing into the unseen efforts behind cultural production.
Céline Condorelli, Untitled (to Rosa Luxemburg), 2024. Stainless steel, powder coat. 350 x 100 x 54 cm. Unique
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“After Work” explores the complex interplay between labor and leisure, highlighting the often unnoticed efforts behind cultural creation. The documentary reveals how these hidden aspects of work enrich our cultural landscape, emphasizing the important balance between artistic production and free time.
Central to the film is “Tools For Imagination,” a unique playground created by Céline Condorelli in South London, starting in 2021. This imaginative space invites community engagement with art, transforming urban areas into places of creativity and wonder, challenging traditional uses of public spaces.
Céline Condorelli and Ben Rivers with Jay Bernard, After Work (still frame). 13 mins, colour, sound, 16mm transferred to HD.
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Jay Bernard, poet and writer, narrates the film, adding depth and context to the story. Their narration offers insightful commentary on the relationship between work, creativity, and play. Ben Rivers’ distinct filmmaking style captures the subtle nuances of the subject, giving the documentary a contemplative and immersive quality.
Céline Condorelli, Untitled (to Rosa Luxemburg), 2024. Pen and coloured pencil on drafting film. 28 x 35 cm. Unique.
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Céline Condorelli, Untitled (to Rosa Luxemburg), 2024. Pen and coloured pencil on drafting film. 28 x 35 cm. Unique.
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At Frieze Sculpture, visitors can further engage with “After Work” through a QR code on a specially designed poster stand. This stand, with colours mirroring Condorelli’s playground sculptures, extends her artistic vision into the exhibition space. By scanning the QR code, visitors access additional content like behind-the-scenes insights, interviews, and extended footage, deepening their understanding of the project.
BIO
Céline Condorelli was born in Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, France, and is a French-Italian and British artist, living and working in London (UK).
Céline Condorelli was the National Gallery’s 2023 Artist in Residence, London.
Condorelli has produced an extensive body of work that develops different possibilities for living and working together, exploring notions such as public space, the commons, institutions, property relations. Condorelli’s practice is committed to a continuous exploration of the less explicit elements that compose the structures through which individuals encounter the world — be they cultural, economic, material, social or political – the apparatuses of visibility that are often taken for granted, and which the artist describes as “support structures”.
Céline Condorelli, Untitled (to Rosa Luxemburg) (deta, 2024. Stainless steel, powder coat. 350 x 100 x 54 cm. Unique
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Céline Condorelli lives and works between London and Lisbon. A selection of exhibitions and projects include: Pentimenti (The Corrections), National Gallery, London, UK; Céline Condorelli: After Work, Talbot Rice Gallery, South London Gallery, UK (2022); Our Silver City 2094, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2022); Dos años de vacaciones, TEA, Tenerife, Spain (2021); Deux ans de vacances, FRAC Lorraine – Metz, France (2020); Ground Control, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2020); Every Step in the Right Direction, Singapore Biennial (2019); Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania (2019); Céline Condorelli, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland (2019); Host / Vært, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark (2019); Zanzibar (commissioned sculpture), King’s Cross Projects, London, UK (2019); Geometries, Locus Athens, Greece (2018); Anren Biennale, Chengdu, China (2018); Epilogue, P!, New York, USA (2017); Wall to Wall, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Germany (2017); Proposals for a Qualitative Society (Spinning), Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (2017); Corps à Corps, IMA Brisbane, Australia (2017); Conversation Piece (commissioned sculptures), MASP, São Paulo, Brazil; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2016); Liverpool Biennial, UK (2016); Biennial of Sidney, Australia (2016); Display Show, Stroom den Haag, Eastside Projects, Temple Bar Gallery, The Hague, Birmingham, Dublin (2015–2016); bau bau, HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy (2014).