V1-1 From "Natural Architecture" series.

The central part of the exhibition is objects made of aluminum sheets that convey corporeal experience in its most purified form. It is an attempt to combine a schematic image of a Place (landscape) with the idea of space as a body, which is characterized by deformation, traces of action and volume. Just as the sculptures of Berlinde De Bruyckere that at first glance seem frighteningly bare, but after the close examination turn out to be heartwarming and live, Gan’s works demonstrate the rigidity of the bends through the soft pliability of the metal and tactility of its surface. It is the bends that serve as visual points of tension: the resistance of the metal is visualized with a gesture. 

Just as a “body without organs” lets in an infinite number of charged intensities with which comes a possibility of finding an identity, thus, Alexey fixates the space like a body through the creation of tension points.

Text: Ekaterina Soriano