Marie Lund
— The Arts Club, London 13 April — 14 September 2016

Originally from Denmark, the multi-disciplinary London-based artist Marie Lund has exhibited internationally, including recently in a group show at Palais de Tokyo, and is currently taking part in the group show Vanilla and Concrete at Tate Britain which brings together sculptures and paintings by three artists whose works explore everyday objects and memories. 

Lund’s practice is rooted in familiar objects and the stories they tell. She investigates the traces and memories of a quotidian material’s previous function through new contexts and perspectives. In Lund’s series of works, Drums, the artist creates bronze casts of the polystyrene inserts that wrap around the edges of delicate consumer objects. These precisely shaped objects only exist in conjunction with the objects they protect, removed from this context and cast in bronze the specificity of their shapes no longer serves a purpose. The sculptures solidify voids and give prominence to inconspicuous shapes and surfaces.

Further works in the show experiment with notions of presence and absence. Lund’s series of works Torso, are slabs of concrete that feature an imprint of a jumper. Lund once again plays with context and expectation by transforming everyday materials into something unfamiliar: the soft fabric of the garment is rendered hard. No longer subject to function, the objects become fossilised versions of their former selves.

The exhibition is curated by Amelie von Wedel and Pernilla Holmes of Wedel Art.