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Saskia Noor van Imhoff
#+40.00, GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US), 17 October - 13 December 2019

Saskia Noor van Imhoff: #+40.00

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Works
  • Saskia Noor van Imhoff #+40.02 , 2019 Plexiglass, neon, humidifier, water, found plaster mould 94 x 129.5 x 78.7 cm | 37 x 51 x 31 in
    Saskia Noor van Imhoff
    #+40.02 , 2019
    Plexiglass, neon, humidifier, water, found plaster mould
    94 x 129.5 x 78.7 cm | 37 x 51 x 31 in
  • Saskia Noor van Imhoff #+40.01, 2019 LED light strips, 3 components 127 x 12.7 x 3.8 cm | 50 x 5 x 1 1/2 in
    Saskia Noor van Imhoff
    #+40.01, 2019
    LED light strips, 3 components
    127 x 12.7 x 3.8 cm | 50 x 5 x 1 1/2 in
  • Saskia Noor van Imhoff #+40.03, 2019 Aluminum, neon 85.1 x 114.3 x 78.7 cm | 33 1/2 x 45 x 31 in
    Saskia Noor van Imhoff
    #+40.03, 2019
    Aluminum, neon
    85.1 x 114.3 x 78.7 cm | 33 1/2 x 45 x 31 in
  • Saskia Noor van Imhoff #+40.04 (Two drawers in different time), 2019 Plexiglass, found plaster mould, neon 20.3 x 95.3 x 73.7 cm | 8 x 37 1/2 x 29 in
    Saskia Noor van Imhoff
    #+40.04 (Two drawers in different time), 2019
    Plexiglass, found plaster mould, neon
    20.3 x 95.3 x 73.7 cm | 8 x 37 1/2 x 29 in
  • Saskia Noor van Imhoff #+40.05, 2019 Neon, cooling element, aluminum, soapstone, nail polish 59.7 x 241.3 x 40.6 cm | 23 1/2 x 95 x 16 in
    Saskia Noor van Imhoff
    #+40.05, 2019
    Neon, cooling element, aluminum, soapstone, nail polish
    59.7 x 241.3 x 40.6 cm | 23 1/2 x 95 x 16 in
  • Saskia Noor van Imhoff #+40.06, 2019 Plexiglass, aluminum casts 74.9 x 100.3 x 48.9 cm | 29 1/2 x 39 1/2 x 19 1/4 in
    Saskia Noor van Imhoff
    #+40.06, 2019
    Plexiglass, aluminum casts
    74.9 x 100.3 x 48.9 cm | 29 1/2 x 39 1/2 x 19 1/4 in
  • Saskia Noor van Imhoff #+40.07, 2019 Neon, found plaster mould 7.6 x 81.3 x 81.3 cm | 3 x 32 x 32 in
    Saskia Noor van Imhoff
    #+40.07, 2019
    Neon, found plaster mould
    7.6 x 81.3 x 81.3 cm | 3 x 32 x 32 in
  • Saskia Noor van Imhoff #+40.09, 2019 neon, plaster plaster (L) 65 x 19 x 27 cm | 25 5/8 x 7 1/2 x 10 5/8 in plaster (R) 15 x 27 x 65 cm | 5 7/8 x 10 5/8 x 25 5/8 in neon: 20 x 210 x 45 cm | 7 7/8 x 82 5/8 x 17 3/4 in
    Saskia Noor van Imhoff
    #+40.09, 2019
    neon, plaster
    plaster (L) 65 x 19 x 27 cm | 25 5/8 x 7 1/2 x 10 5/8 in
    plaster (R) 15 x 27 x 65 cm | 5 7/8 x 10 5/8 x 25 5/8 in
    neon: 20 x 210 x 45 cm | 7 7/8 x 82 5/8 x 17 3/4 in
Installation Views
  • Saskia Noor Van Imhoff 40 00 17 October 13 December 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 1 Retouched 2019
  • Saskia Noor Van Imhoff 40 00 17 October 13 December 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 3 Retouched 2019
  • Saskia Noor Van Imhoff 40 00 17 October 13 December 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 5 2019
  • Saskia Noor Van Imhoff 40 00 17 October 13 December 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 6 2019
  • Saskia Noor Van Imhoff 40 00 17 October 13 December 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 2 Retouched 2019
  • Saskia Noor Van Imhoff 40 00 17 October 13 December 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 7 2019
Press
  • Portrait of Saskia Noor Van Imhoff in her exhibition "#+40.00," 2019, at GRIMM. Photo by Emily Watlington.

    Saskia Noor van Imhoff on Materials with Contradictory Functions

    Emily Watlington, Art in America, December 13, 2019
  • Courtesy of the Artist and GRIMM Amsterdam | New York, Photography by Adam Reich

    Saskia Noor van Imhoff at the GRIMM Gallery New York

    Demi Falkmann, Dutch Culture USA, October 17, 2019
  • Saskia Noor Van Imhoff, installation view. Courtesy of the artist and GRIMM Amsterdam | New York.

    Editors’ Picks: 22 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

    Sarah Cascone, Artnet News, October 4, 2019
Press release
Saskia Noor van Imhoff, #+40.00
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GRIMM is pleased to present #+40.00 1 a new installation by Saskia Noor van Imhoff. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and her first solo exhibition in New York.

1 Grinning Face With Sweat Has the same grin and eyes as Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes but with a single, blue bead of sweat, usually over its left eye.

Zooming in and out, resizing, translating and unfolding: this is only a short list of formal systems and associations which Saskia Noor van Imhoff applies to existing artworks and artifacts. Allocating them a new place in her installations composed of sculptures, found objects and photographs, which are gathered online and culled from archives documenting previous exhibitions. The resulting individual works, assemblages and environments subsequently form new ‘constellations’ or self-referencing systems.

Central to Van Imhoff’s artistic practice are the elements one usually associates with ‘hidden’ and obfuscated practices of categorization and classification. What happens to the meaning or reading of an object through constantly changing situations? How do these different contexts relate to one other? Van Imhoff breaks with the existing or anticipated hierarchy, setting apart individual elements and providing them with renewed value and meaning.

For Van Imhoff’s first solo exhibition in New York, the floor is covered from wall to wall in salt. Clusters of plaster sculptures, objects and neon lines seem to be scattered around the salt surface, in order to slow down their inevitable process of decay. The neon lines are sketched in the space as liquid light frozen in time, melted over and through the different artifacts. Like constellations hardened under sheets of ice they seem to be indefinitely contained in their current state. However, salt is a material impervious to one single meaning in that it both conserves and degenerates. While it is used to preserve, it also erodes landscapes and can eat its way through seemingly impenetrable plates of steel.

The installation #+40.00 dissolves the preconceived boundaries of an exhibition; the viewer and the gallery environment form an integral part of this work. The staircase is illuminated by radiating magenta bars of light- normally used to artificially accelerate the growth process of crops and plants, the lights inscribe an afterimage onto the viewer’s gaze. After descending the stairs and stepping into the salt- filled space, an internal green filter colorizes the viewer’s sight.

Within the gallery space, a transparent Donald Judd Corner Bench replica, that is redefined as both a sculpture and a vitrine, revisits the semiosis of abstract and functional forms. The demarcation between artistic and functional is further blurred by the entanglement of the different humidification processes active in the space, endlessly balancing each other out.

The negative spaces created by the plaster objects bear a faint resemblance to human heads, limbs and bodies. The fragments recall both fossilized organic material and the eroded images of classical sculpture. Their worn shapes and curves are delineated by the neon lines in the space, offering a point of departure for new readings. Van Imhoff’s installations negate any fixed perspective, they present ambiguous associations and inspire seemingly contradictory understandings.

Opening: October 17, 2019, from 6 until 8 pm

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Related content
  • Saskia Noor van Imhoff on Materials with Contradictory Functions Press

    Saskia Noor van Imhoff on Materials with Contradictory Functions

    Art in America Dec 13, 2019
    Read more
  • Saskia Noor van Imhoff at the GRIMM Gallery New York Press

    Saskia Noor van Imhoff at the GRIMM Gallery New York

    Dutch Culture USA Oct 17, 2019
    Read more
  • Editors’ Picks: 22 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week Press

    Editors’ Picks: 22 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

    Artnet News Oct 4, 2019
    Read more

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