Céline Condorelli, ‘After Work’, 2022

Céline Condorelli, After Work, 2022  

Steel, paint, video. Presented by Galeria Vera Cortês  

About the Work

The process of constructing a playground is the starting point for this reflection on the relationship between work and free time, highlighting the hidden labour that underpins the production of culture. After Work follows the construction of the commissioned playground Tools For Imagination in South London and is a collaboration with artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers and poet Jay Bernard, who wrote and voiced the soundtrack.

About the Artist

Céline Condorelli (b. 1974, Boulogne-Billancourt; lives and works in London, UK and Lisbon, Portugal) builds her practice on the legacies of artists, thinkers, architects and designers, creating new languages and forms of communication that might accommodate the restructuring or reimagining of the future. She combines a number of approaches from developing structures for ‘supporting’ (the work of others, forms of political imaginary, existing and fictional realities) to broader enquiries into forms of commonality and discursive sites.

Condorelli was one of the founding directors of Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK, is the author and editor of Support Structures published by Sternberg Press (2009) and was the 2023 National Gallery Artist in Residence. Recent exhibitions and projects include: ‘Pentimenti (The Corrections)’, National Gallery, London (2023); ‘After Work’, Talbot Rice Gallery & South London Gallery; ‘Our Silver City 2094’, Nottingham Contemporary (2022); ‘Dos años de vacaciones’, TEA, Tenerife (2021); ‘Deux ans de vacances’, FRAC Lorraine, Metz; ‘Ground Control’, Bildmuseet, Umeå (2020); ‘Every Step in the Right Direction’, Singapore Biennial; Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania; ‘Céline Condorelli’, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel; ‘Host / Vært’, Kunsthal Aarhus; and Zanzibar (commissioned sculpture), King’s Cross Projects, London (2019). She has exhibited as part of the Gwangju Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, UK; Sydney Biennial (2016).

Ben Rivers (b. 1972, Somerset; lives and works in London, UK) is an artist working with film. His work treads a line between documentary and fiction, often following people who have in some way separated themselves from mainstream society, creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences. Awards include the EYE Art Film Prize; FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 68th Venice Film Festival; Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel; Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists, and twice winner of the Tiger Award at Rotterdam Film Festival. He was commissioned by Artangel to make The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, shown at the former BBC Television Centre, London and The Whitworth Museum, Manchester. Solo shows include ‘After London’, Jeu de Paume, Paris; ‘Urthworks’, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo/Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset; ‘Phantoms’, Triennale, Milan; ‘Urth’, Renaissance Society, Chicago; ‘Islands’, Hamburg Kunstverein; ‘Earth Needs More Magicians’, Camden Arts Centre, London. He recently had a full retrospective at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. 

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^{Main image: Céline Condorelli, After Work, 2024. Galeria Vera Cortês. Frieze Sculpture 2024.Photoby Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze}