one pic monday. Peles Empire

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exhibition view at Wentrup Gallery, Berlin / November 2014

image courtesy of the artist and Wentrup Gallery, Berlin

This a view from the exhibition DUO, a solo exhibition by PELES EMPIRE that opened a few days ago at Wentrup Gallery in Berlin. PELES EMPIRE is KATHARINA STOEVER (1982) and BARBARA WOLFF (1980), two girls respectively from Germany and Romania who started to collaborate in 2005. Their name as well as the source of their artistic practice comes from a Romanian castle sited at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains called Peles. Built between 1873 and 1913, the castle’s architecture is a clash of historical styles ranging from Renaissance to Gothic Revival, Art Deco to Rococo.

According to the press release by Wentrup Gallery, their photographic appropriations of this “edifice of copies” and their subsequent ongoing spatial interpretations of the source material constitute a central point of departure for their works. An important strategy used by PELES EMPIRE is copying the copy; inherent as well is the process of translating something spatial into two-dimensionality, which ultimately again manifests itself in three-dimensional objects.

DUO is on view at Wentrup Gallery in Berlin until January 17, 2015

 



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