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Kate Newby: Nothing that’s over so soon should give you that much strength
Hordaland kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
09 November 2018 —
13 January 2019
Nothing that’s over so soon should give you that much strength is Kate Newby´s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. The works for the exhibition at Hordaland kunstsenter are characterised by a keen understanding of the place. Each work has either been created on site, or integrated meticulously into its environment. Starting with the building itself, Newby opened up four windows of the gallery space, bringing daylight back into the room, allowing the surroundings to become a part of the exhibition itself. As the windows have been permanently closed since 2002, the calculated gesture of breaking them open feels liberating, but at the same time provokes a feeling of brute-force. Hundreds of meters of rope, specially produced by a local rope factory, are coiled through two holes that are cut in the newly opened gallery windows. On the gallery floor, more spaces are pried open. Nearly a thousand metal wedges are hammered in between the wooden floorboards. The wedges are all single-handedly shaped in wax before they are casted in brass, copper and silver. Through seemingly small gestures, Newby´s works are both impactful and bold. They convey a sense of permanency, whilst they still surrender to weather, chance and circumstance.
Nothing that’s over so soon should give you that much strength is Kate Newby´s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. The works for the exhibition at Hordaland kunstsenter are characterised by a keen understanding of the place. Each work has either been created on site, or integrated meticulously into its environment. Starting with the building itself, Newby opened up four windows of the gallery space, bringing daylight back into the room, allowing the surroundings to become a part of the exhibition itself. As the windows have been permanently closed since 2002, the calculated gesture of breaking them open feels liberating, but at the same time provokes a feeling of brute-force. Hundreds of meters of rope, specially produced by a local rope factory, are coiled through two holes that are cut in the newly opened gallery windows. On the gallery floor, more spaces are pried open. Nearly a thousand metal wedges are hammered in between the wooden floorboards. The wedges are all single-handedly shaped in wax before they are casted in brass, copper and silver. Through seemingly small gestures, Newby´s works are both impactful and bold. They convey a sense of permanency, whilst they still surrender to weather, chance and circumstance.