“Chasing Morphos”, an exhibition which brings together two new, unseen works which intervene the gallery space as are intimate, autobiographic interventions.
Both works have been created especially for the artists’ second solo show at La Caja Blanca. The sculptures explore the intense personal metamorphosis, which drives Ball’s artistic practice. The artists’ art-making involves heavy, methodical and often intricate physical work, driven by bursts of energy followed moments of introspection.
The result is a mesmerizing landscape of fragility in tense equilibrium with the weight of brute force, like the wings of a shimmering butterfly.
Artista: Kira Ball (1976 Mallorca, España)
Exhibition dates: 9 th April – 4 June 2016
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Curated: La Caja Blanca
Ball’s large scale, site specific installations are inspired by nature’s organic forms, and untamed vitality. Her sculptural pieces colonize the spaces they inhabit, claiming territory inch by inch, holding their balance in apparently impossible equilibrium.
Her installations appear to wind their way across walls, ceilings and stairways, responding to changing lighting conditions with their moving shadows, and gently wavering with the vibrations generated by the visitor’s movements as they walk close to the works. Translucency and an infinite palette of porcelain whites are the characteristic colours in Ball’s installations.
Each one of the pieces which comprise the installations are hand crafted by the artist in her Binissalem studio. Ball was born in Mallorca (Spain), to a German father and Russian mother. Her training combines formal academic education and a deep belief in the artist-maker philosophy. In 1991 she moved to the UK where she earned a BA Honors in Contemporary Ceramics at Camberwell College of Arts (London) in 2000 and decided to return to her roots in Mallorca where she embarked on a period of introspection, research and technical experimentation. While most of the artists museum and gallery pieces are ephemeral, most of her permanent pieces are site-specific commissions installed in some of the most spectacular stately homes located in Mallorca.