As We Turn Fluent

The act of construction is one that relies largely on the ability to balance between acting forces and effects. While the constructed quality of language is often emphasized through the lens of fluency, to frame ideas of communication in terms of architectural process and industrial sensibility is much less common. Danish artists Tove Storch and Kristian Touborg have each developed signature aesthetic vocabularies that foreground ideas of artificial construction. Their respective sculptural and painting practices balance between moments of tension and collapse, and a sense of immutable structural support against the mechanics of fluidity. For this exhibition, Storch and Touborg found a shared rhythm that introduces us to suspended movements, surface tensions, and illusions of forcing nature in certain directions. Through spatial strategies that elicit emotional engagement, both Storch and Touborg use textiles to communicate newly poetic ways of understanding this relationship.