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Cajsa von Zeipel, Insulting the archive (2017). Exhibition view. Courtesy the artist + Arcadia Missa, London.
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Cajsa von Zeipel, 'Party for one (Anna)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Arcadia Missa, London.
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Cajsa von Zeipel, 'Stamina (Linnéa)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Arcadia Missa, London.
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Cajsa von Zeipel, 'Babe you know what to do (Cajsa & Sophie)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Arcadia Missa, London.
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Cajsa von Zeipel, 'Babe you know what to do (Cajsa & Sophie)' (2017) Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Arcadia Missa, London.
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Cajsa von Zeipel, Insulting the archive (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Arcadia Missa, London.
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Cajsa von Zeipel, 'Dinner at mine, you bring the wine (Marie)' (2017). Installation view. Photo by Tim Bowditch. Courtesy the artist + Arcadia Missa, London.
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Cajsa von Zeipel, Insulting the archive (2017). Detail. Photo by Tim Bowditch. Courtesy the artist + Arcadia Missa, London.

Splitting off into isolation: Cajsa von Zeipel’s Insulting the archive at Arcadia Missa

, 5 July 2017

Cajsa von Zeipel presented solo exhibition Insulting the archive at London’s Arcadia Missa, which opened June 24 and is running to July 29.

Cajsa von Zeipel, Insulting the archive (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Arcadia Missa, London.

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.”**

Cajsa von Zeipel’s Insulting the archive solo exhibition is on at London’s Arcadia Missa, running June 24 to July 29, 2017.