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Modern Art is pleased to present insert, Ian Waelder’s first exhibition in London.
Ian Waelder was born in 1993 in Madrid, Spain. He lives and works between Mallorca and Frankfurt am Main, where he graduated in Fine Arts at the Städelschule as a Meisterschüler under Prof. Haegue Yang. Waelder’s practice deals with trace, memory and the latency of images. Conceived as a site-responsive environment, this presentation is centered on three large-scale works first encountered from behind. Together, they form a dividing wall and makeshift corridor bisecting the space, a passage that acts much like an insert in a book, a separate, partial layer interrupting the whole.
This ongoing series of paintings acts as a veil for a constantly expanding archive of cinematic stills collected by the artist. By overlapping two layers of fabric, a play of perception, depth and scale comes to the forefront, the stain blurring into the figures beneath, constantly changing depending on the position of the…
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Press Release
Modern Art is pleased to present insert, Ian Waelder’s first exhibition in London.
Ian Waelder was born in 1993 in Madrid, Spain. He lives and works between Mallorca and Frankfurt am Main, where he graduated in Fine Arts at the Städelschule as a Meisterschüler under Prof. Haegue Yang. Waelder’s practice deals with trace, memory and the latency of images. Conceived as a site-responsive environment, this presentation is centered on three large-scale works first encountered from behind. Together, they form a dividing wall and makeshift corridor bisecting the space, a passage that acts much like an insert in a book, a separate, partial layer interrupting the whole.
This ongoing series of paintings acts as a veil for a constantly expanding archive of cinematic stills collected by the artist. By overlapping two layers of fabric, a play of perception, depth and scale comes to the forefront, the stain blurring into the figures beneath, constantly changing depending on the position of the…





























































