Artwork of the month - video (58 sec)
Shrine - Shredding Sorrows
Year | 2019 |
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Size | 55,5 cm x 43 cm x 16cm |
Materials | wood, glue, metal, inkt, paint, varnish |
Options | / |
Edition | 1/1 |
For Sale | Yes, contact our gallery Fred&Ferry (Antwerp, BE) |
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This large, green shrine is embellished with imagery of a past fire ritual in which the artists burned the sorrows of the general public. Fire symbols enhance the ritual narrative of the shrine. On top of the shrine is an inscription bearing the message ‘With everyone are we connected’ in German. This shrine was built and activated during the artists’ residency in Berlin in 2019, which was made possible with support from the Flemish Community.
Over the course of their years of collaboration, R&F F&R have sought out clever ways to document their own artistic practice and to communicate it with an audience. Part of their artistic research has been to find new ways of activating artworks. Many years ago, inspired by ancient history, the artists created a wooden suitcase for their alter egos, Reindeerhead and Oxhead. Held upright and with the handle removed, the wooden suitcase looked more like a shrine of the sort used in devotional practices. Instead of honouring deities, ancestors or the spirits of Nature, F&R chose to activate their alter egos in a ritual. This marked a new precedent for a unique aspect of their artistic practice: the creation and activation of shrines.
Some of their shrines require certain rituals to be performed in order to be activated, while others serve simply to depict past events: one such shrine depicts a scene from one of their theatre plays, while another bears a cartoon-like rendering of a past fire ritual in which R&F baked clay amulets. Then there are the other sort, such as their shrine devoted to contemporary archaeology. In this way, each shrine becomes a little theatre or universe in its own right. A work of art that is at once painting and sculpture, object and action.
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- Go Away Sorrow of the World - Mini Suitcase sculpture (2017)
- Trophy for culture sculptures (2014)
- Archeology Suitcase sculpture (2019 - 2020)
- Self-portrait Alter-egos drawing (2020)
- Burning Shrine at Franks new home video / sculpture (2021)
- Magic Mirrors - Ceramic Shrine exhibition / sculpture (2021)
- Clay Tablet - Hugging sculpture (2020)
- Ceramic Suitcase - Foo Dog sculpture (2020)
- Clay Tablet - Helping Hand sculpture (2020)
- Brick - Go Away Sorrow Of The World sculpture (2021)
- Mayan Hieroglyphics unique photoprint (2015)
- Clay Tablet - Lunch sculpture (2020)
- Breadcrumbs - Solo expo (The Movie) exhibition (2020)
- GO AWAY SORROW OF THE WORLD - large sculpture (2020)
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- Alter-Ego Suitcase - Po Toi - Hong Kong silkscreen edition (2018)
- Alter-Ego Suitcase: Reindeer & Bull sculpture / performance (2015)
- Blueprints - Religion silkscreen edition (2018)
- R&F F&R Covid 1.0 wall drawing (2020)
- Clay Tablet - To Break clay tablet edition (2020)
- Clay Tablet - Gemini Ritual clay tablet edition (2019)
- Neon Gemini sculpture (2020)
- Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning? theater (2017 - ongoing)
- R&F F&R Cosmolgy 1.0 wall drawing (2020)
- Mask Totem Pole Suitcase sculpture / performance (2020)
- Clay Tablet - Self-portrait with Mask Totem Pole clay tablet edition (2019)
- Go Away Sorrow Of The World - Venice silkscreen edition (2017)
- F&R Screwdriver sculpture (2018)
- R&F Screws sculpture (2018)
- Clay Tablet - Self-portrait with Ritual Fire clay tablet edition (2019)
- Go Away Sorrow Of The World - Hong Kong silkscreen edition (2018)
- Dice - 遠離浮世悲哀 sculpture (2015)
- Dog Demon Suitcase - Hong Kong - Lan Kwai Fong silkscreen edition (2018)
- Dog Demon Suitcase sculpture / performance (2015)
- Blueprints - Boardgame silkscreen edition (2018)
- Go Away Sorrow Of The World sculpture / performance (ongoing)
- Guns installation (2014) / artist publication (2015)
- Chocolate Guns sculpture edition (2015)
- To Break - The window of opportunity theater (2014-2015)
- PONG video-installation (2014)
- Bloodstains sculpture edition (2014)
- The Gilded Child video (2013)
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- R&F F&R Vending Machine sculpture editions (2014)
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