Vera Kox. Fit frame to content

RIBOT is pleased to present  the first solo show in Italy by Vera Kox (Frankfurt, 1984), a recent series of sculptures and installations that, by playing on the ambiguity of materials, question the spectators' perceptions.
The title chosen for the show, Fit Frame to Content, notionally refers to the digital world, but in this context it takes on a different meaning. The function of some programmes for the layout and management of the images, used for maintaining the proportions of a content that has been modified, become the cue for thoughts about the relationship between the works and the space that surrounds them. Attention is thus concentrated on the mutual adaptation generated between the elements that is seen, on the one hand, in the gallery setting and, on the other hand, in such "forgotten" spaces as those occupied by protective packing materials.
In Vera Kox's works, materials, purposely left unnamed in the captions and press releases for the exhibition, is at the centre of the stage. The exhibited sculptures, in part specifically created for this occasion, exist beyond their form and are not linked to any specific representation but aim, rather, at showing a passage to, and the materialisation of, a sensation. Everything is flexible and temporary in the artist's work, just as in her ideas and thoughts. For this reason, the works do not have a title but are collected together in groups, the names of which allude to the perception that they transmit in the particular context. The series Infinity Jetzt!, Reassuring Inertia and Instant series, are represented on the gallery's upper floor by three works that present the adaptation of diverse elements through a change of state, a prerogative of chemical-physical processes, but also of such by-now everyday gestures as the preparation of instant food.
On the lower floor, the Perseverance series, made specifically for this occasion, shows in detail adaptations and contaminations between the various elements. The white blocks materialise the potential space that exists within the packing cases and show on their surfaces the visible traces of what they live with and what they have undergone: the metallic impression of the gallery steps, the bubbled plastic and characteristic protective chips that surround the works during storage and transport. The same short-circuit between inside and out, and between content and container, is to be found in a special edition produced in eight examples, and in this series too what is usually a banal accessorial material becomes re-evaluated in a system that enhances its existence.
  Vera Kox (Frankfurt, 1984) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at University College for the Creative Arts in Canterbury and at Goldsmiths College, London, where in 2010 she gained a Master's degree in Art Practice. She has held solo and group shows in such international institutions as Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2015); Cercle Cité, Luxembourg (2015); Musée d'Art Moderne, Luxembourg (2013). She has also taken part in various residential programs in such prestigious cultural centres as Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul (2015); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2014); Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (2012). Recently she has been named as a finalist for the Luxembourg Emerging Artist Award which will be given in 2016.
Opening: Thursday 10 March from 7 p.m. The artist will be present

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