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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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