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Grace Weaver, super busy (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Soy Capitán, Berlin.
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Grace Weaver, super busy (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Soy Capitán, Berlin.
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Grace Weaver, super busy (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Soy Capitán, Berlin.
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Grace Weaver, 'Expert' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Soy Capitán, Berlin.
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Grace Weaver, 'finale' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Soy Capitán, Berlin.
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Grace Weaver, 'get together' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Soy Capitán, Berlin.
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Grace Weaver, 'last call' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Soy Capitán, Berlin.
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Grace Weaver, 'super special' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Soy Capitán, Berlin.

Tragicomedy + the gentle register of #fail in Grace Weaver’s super busy at Soy Capitán

, 29 May 2017

Grace Weaver presented solo exhibition super busy at Berlin’s Soy Capitán running April 28 to June 24, 2017.

“In these paintings”, Weaver writes, “tragicomedy falls more into the gentle register of #fail than Shakespearean melodrama.” The New York-based artist works with painting and metropolitan daily life to merge high modernism with cartoon mannerisms. 

Grace Weaver suoer busy (2017) Promotional image. Courtesy the artist+ Soy Capitan, Berlin.

The stereotypical protagonists behave like stage props in carefully choreographed mises en scènes that are representative of a generation of millennials. The digitally informed zeitgeist for which ‘image is everything’ explores life’s accidental beauty and banal tragedies, pairing youthful buoyancy with a sensitivity for pitfalls of human interaction.**

Grace Weaver’s super busy is on at Berlin’s Soy Capitán running April 28 to June 24, 2017.