Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen
unvollendet
show dates: June 28 - July 23, 2022

 Press release 

unfinished

/ʌnˈfɪnɪʃt/
adjective

1.

not finished or concluded; incomplete.
"her last novel is unfinished"

2.

(of an object) not having been given an attractive surface appearance as the final stage of manufacture.

"the garage door can be supplied unfinished for you to paint yourself"

(Cambridge English Dictionary)

Reflection on the notion of the unfinished and invisibility. Fighting the desire to fill in, allowing perception to become a zone. The intensification of focus becomes a necessity in order to grasp what is and what is not, making distance part of the inperfection of looking, rendering them unfinished and possibly sprouting the desire to complete them.

Notes 1-10, canvases lacker sprayed with digitally printed patterns and minimally intervened by hand. With this series of works we refer to empty pages of notebooks where an idea or a doodle is about to apear. 

Spook, a hanging structure comprised of perforated laser cut clear Plexiglas squares takes an animistic character, a spook or a ghost, one that is undead, therefore unfinished. 

Text: Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen

Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen are based in Antwerp, Belgium and work together as a artist duo since 2007. Solo shows include Caraota von Moules, Künstlerhaus Bethaniën, Berlin, 2012 (with Arturo Herrera), Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen and Peter Pilotto, Circa Tabac at The Wallace Collection, Wallace Collection, London, 2011, Landscape, An exhibition by Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen, Sala Juarez - LARVA, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2015, Concrete, Parasol Unit—Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, 2016

There work was included in the following group shows (selection): TOGETHER, curated by Philip Huyghe, Tom Sanders, Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen, Marijke De Roover, Stef Van Looveren, MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, 2020, XIV Bienal de Cuenca: Estructuras vivientes. El arte como experiencia plural, Cuenca, 2019 [catalogue], Sanguine: Luc Tuymans on Baroque, MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, 2018; traveled to Fondazione Prada, Milano, 2018 [catalogue]