Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Sugremin
Linarejos Moreno
The large-format prints on burlap and the memory-laden objects in Linarejos Moreno’s installations become sculptural objects that speak of absence. Her constructions document spaces that are fated to disappear. However, this documentation is not objective; rather, Moreno aims to reach a state of estrangement linked to personal memory and the intimacy of “the inhospitable.” To accomplish this, she sets up a series of actions and rituals which she then photographs. The photographs speak about the subjective memory of these spaces and the globalizing trend in economics that has triggered their disappearance. Always on the boundary between theatrical figuration and complex ritual, she explores the fragility of human beings when faced with economic machinery and time.
Linarejos Moreno graduated in Conservation and Restoration from the National Heritage and Cultural Assets School (E.S.C.R.B.C) and the Fine Arts School of the Complutense University of Madrid. She was awarded a 2012 Fulbright grant to conduct research at Rice University, Houston. Her solo exhibitions include In the Country of Last Things, Llucia Homs Gallery, Barcelona and Plañideras, Vacío 9 Gallery, Madrid. Her group exhibitions include Artifactual Realities, Fotofest 2012, Station Museum, Houston; Entropías. Otros imaginarios, otros vacios de lugar, PhotoEspaña 2009; Idilio sueño y Falacia, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Da2, Salamanca; Arte Emergente Español, Alcalá 31 (CAM), Madrid; and Entre dos mares, Valencia Bienal. Moreno has been awarded the Purificación Garcia Prize for Contemporary Photography and the ABC prize of Painting and Photography, among others.
Linarejos Moreno, The Social Spiders Project, 2012.
Linarejos Moreno, Cutting and Rebounding of Threads 1, 2010, Inkjet print on burlap, 62 × 118 in. (157.48 × 299.72 cm).
Linarejos Moreno, Weaving the Remains of the Shipwreck IV, 2011, Iron, pantyhose and Lightjet photography, 8 × 16 in. (20.32 × 40.64 cm).
Linarejos Moreno, Weaving the Remains of the Shipwreck IV (detail), 2011, Iron, pantyhose and Lightjet photography, 8 × 16 in. (20.32 × 40.64 cm).
Linarejos Moreno, The Social Spiders Project (Detail), 2012.
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Ilija Prokopiev
Working mainly in the media of drawing and painting, Ilija Prokopiev focuses intensely on spatiality, forms and art history. Space and spatiality are his means for analyzing and interpreting personal, historical and cultural images and events. Working with figures, he uses his everyday surroundings as subject matter.
Prokopiev was born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1985 and holds a degree from the University of Skopje’s Faculty of Fine Arts. He has had three solo exhibitions: In Search for a New Place, E-Werk, Freiburg, Germany; At the Same Place, Cultural Center CK, Skopje; and Open Graphic Studio Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia. Prokopiev has participated in several group exhibitions and projects in Macedonia and abroad. He also works as a book illustrator and author in the field of art and culture as a postgraduate student of cultural studies at St. Cyril and Methodius University and is the recipient of the DENES Young Visual Artist Award for 2011.
Ilija Prokopiev, Portrait of My Mother, 2011, Pencil, 79 × 55 in. (200.66 × 139.7 cm).
Ilija Prokopiev, Self-Portrait, 2011, Pencil, 60 × 55 in. (152.4 × 139.7 cm).
Ilija Prokopiev, Island, 2011, Pencil, 14 × 20 in. (35.56 × 50.8 cm).
Ilija Prokopiev, Untitled, 2010, Pencil, 35 × 16 in. (88.9 × 40.64 cm).
Ilija Prokopiev, Untitled, 2010, Pencil, 14 × 20 in. (35.56 × 50.8 cm).
Brendan Van Hek
Brendan Van Hek works predominantly in the field of installations. These vary in tone and scale, shifting from minimal or industrial to lush and colorful. His work is influenced by popular culture, literature and the diverse, conflicting and varied sources that affect cultural producers today. Van Hek’s work emerges from elaborate narratives based on the artist’s personal history, fiction or cultural politics. Through these narratives, the artist explores the concepts of race, religion and masculinity, often looking at the social politics around these issues. Van Hek works with materials such as neon, mirror, glass, metal and disco balls. He manipulates the elemental properties of these materials in order to extend and often negate their symbolic potential.
Brendan Van Hek (born 1968, Perth, Western Australia) studied at Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia, graduating in 2001. He has exhibited nationally in Australia in various group exhibitions including: Neon, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney; NEW11, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; remix, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. His solo exhibitions include; Some kind of love story, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney; A certain slant of light, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth. He has also developed artwork for a number of public art commissions.
Brendan Van Hek, Lead Heart, 2007, Blue neon and graphite powder, Dimensions variable.
Brendan Van Hek, The Person Who Cried a Million Tears, 2011, Disco balls, white neon, mirrors, glass, and spray paint, Dimensions variable.
Brendan Van Hek, Some Kind of Love Story, 2011, Neon and steel.
Brendan Van Hek, Daydreamer, 2009, Disco balls, mirrors, permanent marker, aluminum, and mirrors, 118 × 236 in. (299.72 × 599.44 cm).
Brendan Van Hek, Untitled, 2010, Hand blown neon and acrylic dish, cables and transformers, 87 × 24 in. (220.98 × 60.96 cm).
