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Gray Wielebinski, Privacy Screen, 2022

Gray Wielebinski

Privacy Screen, 2022
Steel
Parts 1 and 3: 193 x 60.8 x 2.5 cm
76 x 24 x 1 in
Part 2: 203 x 60.8 x 2.5 cm
792 1/2 x 24 x 1 in
Dimensions vary with installation
Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991 Dallas, TX, USA) received a BA from Pomona College, Claremont CA, USA in 2014 before completing an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London,...
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Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991 Dallas, TX, USA) received a BA from Pomona College, Claremont CA, USA in 2014 before completing an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK in 2018. They live and work in both London, UK and Los Angeles, CA, USA.

In Wielebinski's expansive practice, incorporating video, performance, collage, installation, sculpture, and more, he explores the intersections of mythology, identity, gender, nationhood, and memory. Reconfiguring and transforming iconography and visual codes, their work seeks to navigate and question society's frameworks and belief systems. Wielebinski deftly confronts realities in order to imagine and propose alternatives.

‘Privacy Screen’ (2022) is an evocative steel sculpture. Its use for privacy has been removed and replaced with sharp spikes evoking barbed wire, saws and arrows. The ornamentation is both decorative and threatening. A privacy screen is an object found in the bedroom, and the work is suggestive of intimacy. The piece is inextricably linked to sexuality, mutual risk and danger as well as pleasure, trust and vulnerability.

‘Privacy Screen’ has a formal and conceptual connection to ‘Two-Way Mirror’ (2023) which is included in Wielebinski’s solo exhibition ‘Red Sun is High, the Blue Low’ at the ICA, London.
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Exhibitions

The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low, ICA, London, UK (2023)
'Raw Nerves', Hannah Barry, 3 November 2022 – 14 January 2023
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