Cajsa von Zeipel presented solo exhibition Insulting the archive at London’s Arcadia Missa, which opened June 24 and is running to July 29.
Large sculptures of young androgynous women crowd the space of the gallery, and challenge and exaggerate what the press release calls “classical sculptural tropes [which] evoke images of museum collections and historical archives.” The statues are not passive, but return our gaze.
The exhibition marks a departure in previous ways of working by von Zeipel; while the artists’ figures used to focus on group dynamics and identities formed through subcultures, the works now explore isolation and the individual where “schisms form, group identities split, tribes become divided.”**