Ella Plevin in V4ult performance/reading at Arcadia Missa with model Rakel Lindgren. Taken with Samsung Galaxy Alpha.
In our “Me, Myself and Art” series, in collaboration with Samsung Galaxy Alpha, Sleek takes an immersive approach to the art world. Via the medium of writer and stylist Ella Plevin, and her shiny new Samsung Galaxy Alpha, we bring the art world to you in a uniquely personalised way, utilising performance, selfies and video to present new perspectives on the art scene.
I’m not the first hack to make that pun and I won’t be the last, but after my barefoot reading on Saturday (doused beforehand in cold water, performed outside at a brisk 12ºc to a vigorously-layered crowd) I’m feeling kind of entitled. Frieze, the UK’s largest annual contemporary art fair, opens on Tuesday but gallery doors were already being flung open to accommodate enthusiasts over the weekend.
I agreed to be part of V4ULT’s ‘A Gesture Waves Us On, Answering Our Own Wave’, staged in tandem with the opening of “Facing the Same Direction”, a new exhibition of work by Maja Cule at South London’s Arcadia Missa gallery. The performance (titled for the publication which precedes it) explores ideas and problems relating to interfaces in an expanded field: from bodies to regions, the digital to the grammatical.
Preface to “A Gesture Waves Us On, Answering Our Own Wave”. Taken with Samsung Galaxy Alpha
V4ault is a curatorial platform initiated by Berlin-based duo Anna Mikkola and Hanna Nilsson in 2013 to explore spatial boundaries through inhabited structures: “…not really a project space, but rather a multi-faceted project that has invited artists, designers and writers to reflect upon our presupposition of space as a physical entity”.
Text by Ella Plevin
“Facing the Same Direction” is at Arcadia Missa until 15 November
“A Gesture Waves Us On, Answering Our Own Wave” is sold by Nero
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