Signals
18th September 2023 - 1st October 2023
Dunja Jankovic
Studio Furthermore
Curated by Fels World
For London Design Festival 2023 as part of Mayfair Design District, gallery Kravitz Contemporary collaborates with design platform Fels to showcase the conversations and blurred boundaries between art and design with a dual exhibition by Barcelona-based artist Dunja Jankovic and London-based Studio Studio Furthermore.
Materiality, process and scale are explored in the dialogue between form and function as large scale visual works sit alongside porcelain foam vessels and light sculptures.
Jankovic’s large format screen prints bear resemblance to ancient altars dedicated to the sky; great architectural pedestals built by humans to get closer to the mysteries above, portals to the cosmos patterned with electric colour and the granulation of static signals reaching us from epochs ago.
Dunja Jankovic
Untitled, 2023
Screen Print Mural
Furthermore
Family Vessel, 2023
Pigmented Porcelain Foam
68.6 × 38.1 × 50.8 cm
Studio Furthermore’s porcelain foam vessels and light sculptures appear as material samples collected from space itself. A result of advanced material research and ceramic development, celestial bodies and organic forms of crumbling matter punctured with craters offer soft, glowing light and gradient tones.
Like the distant wonders admired from earth for millennia, Furthermore’s objects punctuate the room as satellites framed against a backdrop of Jankovic’s printed monuments.
Dunja Jankovic
Untitled, 2023
Screen Print Mural
Furthermore
Caved Vessel, 2023
Pigmented Porcelain Foam
23 × 15 × 12 cm
Furthermore
Split Vessel Unblemished, 2023
Pigmented Porcelain Foam
23 × 15 × 12 cm
The body, at once unique and universal to the human condition, commands both unity and diversity within the discourse of representation. Taking principal role in oeuvres of the residency artists, the figure provides us with a nuanced exploration of the artists’ lived and cultural experiences, lending renewed meaning to the notion of selfhood.
Furthermore
I Dream of Mountainds at First Light Vessel, 2023
Pigmented Porcelain Foam
27 × 15 × 20 cm
Furthermore
Lung Light, 2023
Pigmented Porcelain Foam
27 × 15 × 20 cm
Studio Furthermore consists of duo Marina Dragomirova and Iain Howlett. Meeting at the RCA, they have since forged a distinctive aesthetic and process which sits at the intersection of craft technique and industrial logic. Constant hands-on exploration alongside research into scientific and naturally occurring processes allow Studio Furthermore to experiment and develop material possibilities into material realities. With their unique casting processes and sponge recipes, they create beautiful functional objects, furniture and lighting from aluminium and ceramics.
Dunja Jankovic
Marina Dragomirova
Iain Howlett