Tearing | clemente ciarrocca

Tearing

gemini, Berlin, DE

January 17—21, 2024

Exhibition and performance including synthesized tears, cotton paper, polymer sheeting, polyvinyl chloride, brass, cotton paper, plywood, vellum et. al., 30m sound mix.

exhibition text & map

tearing: interrogations
Dave Walker and Clemente Ciarrocca

Tearing, installation view (detail), entrance to the exhibition space at gemini

Tearing, installation view (detail), closed eyelight #1

Tears (detail), 2024, water (98.7%), sodium chloride, lysozyme hydrochloride, calcium carbonate, magnesium chloride hexahydrate, potassium chloride, ic 5027 lipowax, sodium hyaluronate 1.00% sol., adrenaline tartrate, anhydrous glucose (ph eur), urea, mucin, amylase, 10000ml

Notes on the Crossing (high resolution scan), 2024, archival inkjet print on cotton paper, 29.7x42cm

Contract Implied in Fact between You and the Object Your Sight (high resolution scan), 2024, archival inkjet print on cotton paper, 27.9 x 42 cm

5 (November 22nd - December 9th) (detail), 2023, brass, discharge, blood, hematite, water, alizarin powder, alizarin crimson oil, charcoal, custom frame, 80 x 60 x 8cm

Tearing, installation view (detail, 8)

8 (January 18th - ) (detail), 2024, brass, discharge, custom handle bits, 30 x 7.5x 7.5 cm

Tearing, production documentation, abrading (zeroing) ‘4', October 17, 2023

4 (October 17th - October 31st), 2023, brass, discharge, blood, hematite, water, alizarin powder, alizarin crimson oil, charcoal, rubber headrest, 31 x 14 x 12cm

4 (October 17th - October 31st), 2023, brass, discharge, blood, hematite, water, alizarin powder, alizarin crimson oil, charcoal, rubber headrest, 31 x 14 x 12cm

Tearing, installation view (detail)

3 (July 26th - August 1st), 2023, brass, discharge, blood, hematite, alizarin powder, alizarin crimson oil, vacuum sealer polymer bag, silk, 30.5 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm

3 (July 26th - August 1st)(detail), 2023, brass, discharge, blood, hematite, alizarin powder, alizarin crimson oil, vacuum sealer polymer bag, silk, 30.5 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm

3 (July 26th - August 1st), 2023, brass, discharge, blood, hematite, alizarin powder, alizarin crimson oil, vacuum sealer polymer bag, silk, 30.5 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm