K a y d e A n o b i l e
KAYDE ANOBILE
Home Not Home
25 June – 18 July 2015
TINTYPE
107 Essex Road London N1 2SL, UK
Tel: 00 44 (0) 207 354 4360
info@tintypegallery.com www.tintypegallery.com
Tintype is pleased to announce our future exhibition, Kayde Anobile’s Home Not Home,
the artist’s second solo-show with the gallery.
Kayde Anobile once jokingly referred to herself as a serial migrant. On reflection she
realised it was an apt description. Born in the USA, she has lived in Geneva, Hong Kong,
Chicago, London, and Istanbul.
Anobile moved to Istanbul in 2012 and the work in Home Not Home is a response to the
changing physical and social identity of the city. She has been documenting old wooden
buildings, many of which belonged to Greek, Jewish and Armenian minorities forced out
by repressive government policies. These timber homes are dotted throughout the city in
variously dilapidated states of limbo. As building development sweeps through Istanbul,
their existence is increasingly perilous.
Though flimsy and falling down, they still have a powerful presence; a reminder of lost
lives, abandoned homes, people passing through.
Anobile works with encaustic paint, one of the oldest painting mediums, layered with
synthetic resin, a much more recent material. This combination is appropriate for the
confluence of subjective memory and objective reality that she explores “…my work
situates itself where opposing ideas meet; the uncanny, the undefined, the in-between of
given concepts.”
In earlier work she made use of creatures such as the Yeti, possibly mythical or legendary,
as a way of testing the boundaries of uncanny otherness. Works based on twins and
doppelgangers also teased out ambiguities around gender and sexuality.
As well as painting, Anobile is known for her installations – which draw on ideas of
illusion – creating illusory spaces with the simplest of methods, principally through light
and mirrors. For Home Not Home she has calculated the dimensions of the cubic space
that her possessions, clothes and studio supplies take up, and is making an installation
based on the significance of space and possessions: “...migration undermines the idea of
home as a permanent settlement – the notion of permanence becomes temporary.
What you choose or are forced to leave behind is as important as what you decide to
bring..”
KAYDE ANOBILE studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and completed an MA at
Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2010. Home Not Home is her second solo show at
Tintype. Recent selected shows include: Objects In/Of Migration, Allard Pierson Museum,
Amsterdam, 2014; Halka Projects Art Initiative, at the Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair,
2014; I never promised you the world, Halka Art Projects, Istanbul, 2013; Everything will fall
into place, Bloc Projects, Sheffield & Arts Collinwood, Cleveland, Ohio, 2013; Simulacra
(solo show) Tintype, London 2011; The Nature of Change: Hybridity and Mutation, HRL
Contemporary, London, 2011; Silent Night, Centre for Recent Drawing, London 2010.
She has also shown at the Unit B Gallery in Chicago and was selected for the El Nogal
Residency, Madrid in 2012. Anobile has made commissioned work for private collectors
and her work is in several international collections.
For further information contact:
Teresa Grimes
00 44 (0) 207 353 4360
teresa.grimes@tintypegallery.com