Collective Nostalgia Event

Cow Mash
Victoria Nunley
Natalie Terenzini
Zandile Tshabalala

Curated by Sveva D’Antonio
Set Design Athena Papadopoulos

Opening: Wednesday, 2 June 2021
4pm – 10pm

Collective Nostalgia is a group show of women artists born in the 90s.
The idea was born at the end of October 2020 after of series of Skype calls with different artists. The shared feeling was a nostalgic attachment to the past, nostalgia for the present and towards the future. We came up with an idea of community or even better of a feminine collective. And by then, it was clear to me whom to invite to the show at VIN VIN gallery and the process I was going to initiate. I involved two artists and then propose each of them to invite one artist. The display of the works will be in the hands of the artist Athena Papadopoulos. Nostalgia, according to her, is magnetism to memory, to recreating memory through objects, it’s a coping strategy that can make us feel safe when escaping reality.

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Danielle Pamp

Opening:
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
4pm – 10pm

Danielle Pamp (*1991 in Stockholm, Sweden) Using material from her personal experiences, Danielle Pamp create narratives about gender identity and queer identities, childhood, upbringing, religious structures, the nuclear family, relations, mental illness, traumas, and what they mean for human existence in general. She want to express a sense of personal catastrophe while at the same time aim at a more general humanizing perspective. An angle that is so personal so that it takes on a general relatable form, always present with an existential atmosphere.
Her works also take on art-historical resonances. For example, by creating a documentary scene, and playing with the characters’ ’timeless’ look, it can seem as though putting time ”out of joint” fills a logical function for her project and agenda. This is an attempt to ’rehistoricise’ or produce alternative forms of historical storytelling, since some of the identities she try to represent have been excluded from art-history (queer, gay, transgender, alternative forms of ’male’ and ’female’ expression, etc). This disrupts bourgeois painting’s ’embellished’ concept of normality, which is reinforced in most of the works of traditional oil painting.

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Siggi Sekira

Opening:
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
4pm – 10pm

Siggi Sekira (*1987 in Odessa, Ukraine; lives and works in Vienna) Since 2015 she’s been studying on the Master’s program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her artistic practice includes ceramic sculpture and coloured pencil drawings. Recent exhibitions include Sweet Lies at Ludwig Forum Aachen; Cruel Summer Camp at Exile, Vienna; Rhizome at Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna and Fever Dream at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna.Siggi Sekira’s drawings are organised around the common themes of reproductive labour, female hysteria, and false expectations. They draw from a variety of sources from Slavic mythology to the 1900s Wiener Werkstätte, the Soviet avant-garde, and the influx of the Western pop-culture after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Each drawing is a garland of self-portraits, associations, family stories, and unfortunate coincidences. Together, they create a new narrative and an alternative, macabre, memory of one’s life events. The figures in Sekira’s drawings frequently shut themselves down, their eyes closed and heads floating in the black clouds among disconnected muscles and biomorphic creatures. There is a continuous sense of chaos and unease, something rather twisted but, at the same time, presented in the bright colours of 1950s Soviet animation and delicate lines mimicking botanical drawings.