Grace Schwindt
Grace Schwindt uses theatrical sets for video and performance works with minimal architectural elements and props to mark a location, for example, a family home. She places bodies in these spaces, sometimes including her own, and uses a tightly-scripted choreography in which every move relates to institutionalised systems that rely on exclusion and destruction. She investigates how social relations and understandings about ourselves are formed in such systems. Interviews that she conducts with individuals often serve as a starting point for fictionalised dialogues that are then delivered by different performers. She also creates sculptures and drawings.
Solo presentations include exhibitions at the South London Gallery, White Columns Gallery in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Collective Gallery in Edinburgh, Void Gallery in Derry, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Wiels–Centre for Contemporary Arts in Brussels, and Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. Schwindt has shown work in group exhibitions at Tate Britain, Arnolfini in Bristol, Nomas Foundation in Rome, Cinema Galleries in Brussels, and Shanhe Museum in China, among many others. She is a recipient of a Grant to Individual Artist for Performance Art and Theatre from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York.
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Grace Schwindt uses theatrical sets for video and performance works with minimal architectural elements and props to mark a location, for example, a family home. She places bodies in these spaces, sometimes including her own, and uses a tightly-scripted choreography in which every move relates to institutionalised systems that rely on exclusion and destruction. She investigates how social relations and understandings about ourselves are formed in such systems. Interviews that she conducts with individuals often serve as a starting point for fictionalised dialogues that are then delivered by different performers. She also creates sculptures and drawings.
Solo presentations include exhibitions at the South London Gallery, White Columns Gallery in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Collective Gallery in Edinburgh, Void Gallery in Derry, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Wiels–Centre for Contemporary Arts in Brussels, and Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. Schwindt has shown work in group exhibitions at Tate Britain, Arnolfini in Bristol, Nomas Foundation in Rome, Cinema Galleries in Brussels, and Shanhe Museum in China, among many others. She is a recipient of a Grant to Individual Artist for Performance Art and Theatre from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York.
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Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium