Fold Gallery is proud to pres ent After White a collaborative show comprising painting, sculptural intervention and performance.
There is a physical awareness of spatial conditions that is as much the origin as it is the con tent of Michaela Zimmer’ s work. While her paintings strive to resolve issues of cor poreal energy in a visceral sense , h er collaboration with dance is based on a mutual understa nding of physical expression. Elements of performance are utilized to construct her work; continuous painted lines, applied in one stroke, with dashes and reflections that often produce multiple laye rs and make up a surface that is fluid but also precise. Designating the studio as a site of private ritual, Michaela Zimmer is known for layered compositions on canvas coupling the traditions of painting and drawing with unconventional materials.
In After White Zimmer has invited Peter Welz, who for this collaboration, has designed a hybrid betwe en an architectural device and a sculpture . The architectural s tructure divides the gallery in a manner that references modernism , not only presenting an obst acle , but also a means for the structure to interact with the painting. Some times the structure cuts into a view of a painting – sometimes it acts as a strut to support one. Welz and Zimmer in v ite the viewer to walk around and interact physically with the paintings and structure , to view them from different angles ; in a sense choreographing the movement of the viewer, making the m become a performative part of the work .
Welz’ s interest i n motion and architectur e started from his first collaboration with cho reographer William Forsythe for the installation Retranslation | Final Unfini shed Portrait (Francis Bacon) , presented at the Mu sée du Louvre in Paris in 2005. In this work the human body harmonizes, intersects and inserts itself perfectly into the piece as a gestural expression - an interaction with body and object is continued and expanded upon for After White .
On the opening night Miguel Altunaga wi ll perform the next version of labo(rat)ori , an ongoing performance project between Zimmer and Altunaga who is a member of the Rambert dance company . For the first time Altunaga will not only act as choreographer but will also perform the solo .
Special thanks to Sarah Rosengarten, an artist working with textures and textile, who joins the team by creating the costume for Altunaga ’s performance .

OPENING TIMES: Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 6pm
(or by appointment)