From 23 October to 14 November 2010, Ane Graff holds a solo exhibition at the project space of Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China, as part of her 2 month-long residency from Office of Contemporary Art, Norway. The exhibition shows new sculptural work from Graff made during her stay in Beijing.

The individual sculptures come together to form the installation Patches of Standing Water. The work is a continuation of Graff’s ongoing investigation into the nature of matter. The sculptural works of Patches of Standing Water are mimicking nature at a basic syntactic level whilst examining the randomness of movement within mass. The work offers a subjective interpretation of materials’ diffusion and drift.

Built up with mixed materials, mainly wood and silk fabric, the sculptures are presented as in between the biomorphic and the geometric.The works of Patches of Standing Water are thus echoing their own uncertain status in between movement and standstill, representation and abstraction. The result is configurations that clearly resemble natural forms, while still eluding a fixed interpretation.

Ane Graff was born in 1974 in Bodø, NOR, and graduated from Vestlandet’s Art Academy (Bergen, NOR) in 2004. Recent exhibitions include THE DRAWING BIENNALE 2010, Moss, NOR, LIFE FORMS, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE, and SLIDING, Bethanien Künstlerhaus, Berlin, DE. Graff lives and works in Oslo and Berlin.