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    Kerry Downey in collaboration with Joanna Seitz, Still from To Do List, 2012-2014, single channel video, 17:26, featuring Jen Rosenblit, © Courtesy of the artist

    Kerry Downey & Joanna Seitz

    Kerry Downey (b. 1979, Ft. Lauderdale) is an inter­dis­ci­plinary artist and edu­cator based in New York City. Downey’s work explores rela­tion­ality through the many ways we inhabit our bodies and access forms of power. Downey’s prac­tice includes video, print­making, painting, drawing, writing, and per­for­mance.

    They’ve recently had a solo shows at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division in New York and CAVE in Detroit. Their first major pub­li­ca­tion We col­lect together in a net was printed by Wendy’s Subway in 2019. They have also exhib­ited at the at Queens Museum, Flushing, NY; the Hessel Museum at Bard College, Annandale, NY; Danspace Project, New York, NY; Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA, and Taylor Macklin, Zurich, CH. Downey is a recip­ient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Artist-in-res­i­den­cies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME; Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, NY; SHIFT at EFA Project Space, New York, NY; the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions, New York, NY; Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA; and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Downey par­tic­i­pated in the Queer/Art/Mentorship pro­gram in 2013. Their work has been in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Washington Post. Downey holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Hunter College.

    Joanna Seitz (b.1977, Virginia) is an artist and designer living and working in New York City. Joanna holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work includes pho­tog­raphy, video, set design, instal­la­tion, per­for­mance, and pub­li­ca­tions. Recent shows include: Art Gallery of Guelph (Ontario), Interstate Projects (Brooklyn), ‘Cave (Detroit), Taylor Macklin (Zurich), REVERSE gallery (Brooklyn), Lynch Tham (NYC), Picturefarm (Brooklyn), the Hessel Museum at Bard College (NY), Columbia University (NY), NURTUREart (Brooklyn).

    Lou Masduraud

    Lou Masduraud, Bureau des pleurs, Lou Masduraud, 2019, Biennale de Lyon.

    Lou Masduraud (b. 1990, Montpellier) lives and works in Geneva. In her work, she anal­yses, mod­i­fies and stages col­lec­tive and nor­ma­tive habits in such a way as to expose the rela­tions of power and desire that underlie them and cause sys­temic vio­lence. Combining sculp­ture, instal­la­tion and per­for­mance in her formal vocab­u­lary, both grotesque and poetic, the artist cre­ates phan­tas­magor­ical worlds which are alter­na­tives to dom­i­nant real­i­ties, depicting this trans­fig­u­ra­tion of the everyday as an ini­tial form of eman­ci­pa­tion.

    Lou Masduraud has shown her work at the Lyon Biennale; Foundation Ricard; MAC Lyon; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin; Kunsthalle Basel; the Moscow Biennale; Kunsthaus Hamburg; Kunstmuseum Luzern; at Parc Saint Léger de Pougues-les-Eaux and in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Antoine Bellini, at Cité des sciences et de l’Industrie, 2018; Hard Hat in Geneva, 2017; at BF15, Lyon, 2016. Lou Masduraud was a res­i­dent at Centre d’Art Contemporain - Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, 2016; at Titanik, in Turku, Finland, 2017; at SummerLake, ESAAA Annecy, France, 2015 and at Maison des Arts du Grütli, Geneva, Suisse, 2015.

    Maria Toumazou

    Maria Toumazou, Installation View. Fair-face Elysée, Solo exhibition, an Off-site project by Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, 2018.

    Maria Toumazou  (b. 1989, Nicosia) is based in Nicosia and Frankfurt, Main. In her prac­tice, usu­ally sculp­ture and writing, she decon­structs “con­tem­po­rary and tra­di­tional Cypriot working cul­ture, embodying per­sonal and polit­i­cally charged themes.” A common thread in her prac­tice, links her interest in objects at the moment where their form opens up to an alter­na­tive usage frame­work, and extends in a sim­ilar way, to spaces, groups of people and instances where autonomy, rethinking of once influ­en­tial values and invis­ible bonds emerge.

    Over the years she cre­ated col­lab­o­ra­tive pro­jects which are part of the prac­tice and also stand as inde­pen­dent modes of pro­duc­tion in them­selves. In 2013 she co-founded Neoterismoi Toumazou (Neo Toum), a pro­ject space and a col­lec­tive in Nicosia with whom she par­tic­i­pated as guests of the Cyprus Pavilion, The Future of Color, in the Venice Biennale Arte 2017. She is also co-founder of the pub­lishing imprint MARIA†. edi­tions based in Nicosia and New York. She holds a BA Art Practice from Goldsmiths College, London, an MFA from Glasgow School of Art and is cur­rently a guest in Prof. Haegue Yang’s class in Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main.

    Lorenza Longhi

    Lorenza Longhi, Installation View, The Replacements. Museum Im Bellpark, Kriens. 2019. Untitled, 2019, Silk-screen on fabric mounted on wood panel, aluminium, screws 138 x 100 x 3 cm each; diptych. Courtesy The Artist and Fanta MLN.

    Lorenza Longhi (b.1991, Lecco) is an artist living and working in Zürich. She attended Visual Art Master at ECAL in Lausanne and pre­vi­ously studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Lorenza’s works imply the repro­duc­tion or direct uti­liza­tion of specific objects and visual ele­ments - from fur­ni­ture pieces to ele­ments taken from adver­tise­ments and com­mu­ni­ca­tion strate­gies. She chooses ele­ments which act as a state­ment that refer to, and serve as, power struc­tures. This is obtained through repro­duc­tion with crafty tech­niques and methods, using non tra­di­tional yet highly specific mate­rials and labors. All the ele­ments taken in account are recom­bined together, the ref­er­ence are some­times very pre­sent other times smoothed down and dis­persed in order to aug­ment their sneak­i­ness. So cer­tain times they speak to niches some other they impose their truism. Her objects and paint­ings have hoarding ten­den­cies, and react to the imme­diacy of power through this insane way of resis­tance - the hoarding and crafti­ness - and a somehow ironic per­ish­able min­imal per­fec­tion, making of the moment some­thing of per­ma­nence.

    Her recent solo exhi­bi­tions include: (+33)7.85.92.83.67, La Plage, Paris, 2019; Visual Hell, New Location, Fanta-MLN, Milan, 2019; You’re In Business? I’m In Business, Plymouth Rock, Zürich, 2019; Going Bananas, Wishing Well, Lausanne, 2017; Today Is Not That Great, Fanta-MLN, Milan, 2017. Her works have been included in group exhibitons at: Kunst Halle St. Gallen, St. Gallen; Museum Im Bellpark, Kriens; Fonda- zione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; CACY, Yverdon-les-Bains; Taylor Macklin, Zürich; Alienze, Lausanne; No Conformism, Prilly; Armada, Milan.