Magali Reus
As Mist, Description
23 Mar - 27 May 2018
Magali Reus, left: Sentinel (Vesuvio), 2017, right: Crane, 2017.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
Magali Reus, Crane, 2017 (detail)
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
Magali Reus, left: Sentinel (Vesuvio), 2017, right: Hwael (The Flat), 2017.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
Magali Reus, Hwael (The Flat), 2017 (detail)
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
Magali Reus, Sentinel (Vesuvio), 2017.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
Magali Reus, Sentinel (Vesuvio), 2017 (detail).
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
Magali Reus, Hwael (Fully Automatic Time), 2017.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
Magali Reus, Hwael (Fully Automatic Time), 2017 (detail).
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
Magali Reus, left: Hwael (Fully Automatic Time), 2017 (detail), right: Sentinel (Rosewood), 2017.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
As mist, description, South London Gallery, 2018. Photo © Lewis Ronald. Courtesy Magali Reus; The Approach, London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
London-based Dutch artist Magali Reus’s first major institutional solo exhibition in London comprises an entirely new body of work, framed by architectural interventions designed specifically for the South London Gallery’s main space.
Magali Reus creates sculptural forms, often made in series. Her works are subtly suggestive of familiar machines or apparatus whose function and identity remains intentionally ambiguous. At the SLG, a new body of meticulously produced sculptures is presented in spatial chapters and designed to appear in a state of transition – frozen in progress, caught mid-function, or in a state of restoration, ruin or abandonment. Images and their representative materials are seen to move transformed between different chemical states. Visual elements are reproduced, layered and repeated in works that are individually crafted using complex casting, moulding and weaving techniques, pitting the aggressive emptiness of manufacture against the slow diligence of handiwork.
Commissioned and produced by Bergen Kunsthall and the South London Gallery.
Magali Reus was born in Den Haag, The Netherlands in 1981, and currently lives and works in London.
Magali Reus creates sculptural forms, often made in series. Her works are subtly suggestive of familiar machines or apparatus whose function and identity remains intentionally ambiguous. At the SLG, a new body of meticulously produced sculptures is presented in spatial chapters and designed to appear in a state of transition – frozen in progress, caught mid-function, or in a state of restoration, ruin or abandonment. Images and their representative materials are seen to move transformed between different chemical states. Visual elements are reproduced, layered and repeated in works that are individually crafted using complex casting, moulding and weaving techniques, pitting the aggressive emptiness of manufacture against the slow diligence of handiwork.
Commissioned and produced by Bergen Kunsthall and the South London Gallery.
Magali Reus was born in Den Haag, The Netherlands in 1981, and currently lives and works in London.