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White Cube, London, UK

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Location

144-152 Bermondsey St
London SE1 3TQ
United Kingdom

DurationSeptember 6, 2012 - November 18, 2012

Through film, sculpture, drawing and painting, French artist Isabelle Cornaro re-evaluates objects byexploring the tensions between their aesthetic and cultural value and by questioning meaning through formal and conceptual modes of display. Cornaro uses scanning, photography and plaster casting as her methods of production.

Through meticulous arrangements, she investigates the properties of objects and the historicity they can point to or steer away from. Homonyms (II) (2012), for example, are coloured plaster casts taken from soft materials such as laces, quilts and carpets. The misplaced use of colour and materiality of their new form alters their original identity and disrupts how these transformed objects are perceived. In the film, Money filmed from the side and a three-quarter view (2010), Cornraro portrays actual coins and Euro notes being transformed into abstract forms through the cinematic use of light and colour. The preoccupation with spatiality and light in the film brings currency’s aesthetic into the composition, stripping the importance of its monetary value. Cornaro creates differing landscapes in her work, welcoming new reflections on the ideology of object and space.