Marrow Gallery presents Archive, an exhibition of new works from French artist Katya Bonnenfant who goes by the moniker, The Old Boys’ Club. Archive is an amalgamation of two series of works, The Prophets and Internet Searches.
Internet Searches is a compilation of images the artist created using Google Image Search for keywords like emptiness, harmony and simplicity. The abstract images give pause and provide moments of meditation between the visual overload of the prophets pieces. The two series work in tandem to create visual representations that religion offers, a sense of harmony, fulfillment and wonderment.
The Prophets series, done after the French terrorist attacks, looks at different holy men and fables from around the world. The imagery is based on both real and imagined prophets and draws on a diverse repository of visual language from all over the world from traditional Japanese woodblock prints to African masks, underscoring the inherent postcolonial critique in her artist moniker. Conjuring elaborate iconography by borrowing from traditions from all over the world, OBC creates a visual world of language that proposes a unity and familiarity in the human experience. The show opens on June 8th and runs through July 9th. The gallery is open by appointment only.
About the Artist
The Old Boy’s Club has shown extensively worldwide, including at the Chapelle St Jacques, Contemporary Art Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), The San Jose Museum of Art and at galleries in Ireland, USA, Germany, France, London and Brussels. She has won awards for her web design, including for Sketch London and Le Palais de Tokyo. She studied at The School of Beaux Arts and the Sorbonne. Currently based in the French Pyrenees, Marrow Gallery has represented the OBC since 2015.
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