The Japanese artist Ken Matsubara had simple, reflective works that seemed to be about the process of memory and the role it plays. The objects were all perfectly formed, but my favorite was this elegant wooden box enclosing a recessed video playing while reflected on the mirrored sides around it.
I wish I was watching waves wash over my feet in just such a fashion. Hmmm, not to pick favorites…but this might be my favorite from Volta.
There were so many high-quality artists being shown at Volta, but Sinta Werther’s work at the Nettie Horn Gallery booth stood out to me.
The Broken Bits of Pieces use glass, lightbulbs, and mirrors to reflect carefully painted scenes, but they are less scenes as suggestions of place.
These Autoprojections, above and below, are done on photographic paper with paint, and as you can kind of see in the image below, the paper has also been folded.
Apparently these are small-scale examples of her preoccupation with bending space and begging the view the question reality and perception, and some very cool examples of large-scale manipulations can be found on Volta’s page dedicated to the artist.
“Public play” was called for: asking people to step into this booth for 2 minutes of floating butterflies blowing around at GE Galeria, Monterrey Mexico, by Erika Harrsch. This neat and, yes, playful exhibition was probably the most engaging work at Volta art fair.
In an on trend moment, the butterflies (which) I thought were made of trash) are made of currency. Currency appearing folded, printed on, or painted all over the fairs.