ON VIEW: 9th March 2021 – 13th June 2021
In her works, Patricia L. Boyd is occupied on the one hand with the circumstances and conditions of her immediate environment, and on the other hand reacts – in an institution-critical tradition – to the respective exhibition context. In the process she both questions and oversteps the boundaries of display and installation standards. Boyd’s works emerge in relation to contexts, processes and dynamisms that influence, confirm, undermine or even suspend art’s claim to its own social position. They are concerned with circulations (of energy, bodies, resources) and the places at which these overlap. The artist creates sculptures, murals and video works that are derived from the residues, impressions, value reversals, surplus effects and waste of these economies and their respective locations. One strategy that is characteristic of her practice is the reference to and reuse of the settings of her own previous artistic work, which produces a cyclical logic within her work.
Patricia L. Boyd develops her artworks through inquiries into the infrastructures and dynamics of their production and presentation. The works on view in her solo exhibition Hold at Kunstverein München, many of which intervene into the architecture of the gallery spaces, consider the reciprocal relationship between artistic practices and mechanisms of display. The exhibition includes various types of containers and thresholds—both actual and metaphoric—pointing to contradictions that structure psychological and institutional spaces.
Hold is accompanied by a series of events including an online reading by artist Moyra Davey. The artist’s first comprehensive book, conceived in collaboration with graphic designer Scott Ponik, will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.
