February 7. Interiors. An intervention by Tracey Snelling in the Manual Model Museum

Friday, February 7, 19:00
Interiors
An intervention by Tracey Snelling in the Manual Model Museum

Interiors
Within cities, one can live in close proximity to many people, but often rarely know their neighbours. There can be a sense of isolation which contrasts to the amount of people in an area. Tracey Snelling has always been curious about what people do, how they live, and what happens behind closed doors, and also in public/private spaces, when people are alone. As a guest of The Institute for Endotic Research, she will present 3 small small-scale room sculptures in the Manual Model Museum, a glass vitrine and conceptual device. On February 7th, we will present the mini exhibition, and also have a discussion about the artworks, her process, and the idea of neighbours, privacy, and social and domestic spaces.

Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and large-scale installation, Tracey Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience. Her work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop that transport observation into the realm of storytelling, with reality and sociological study being the focus. Snelling has exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium; Palazzo Reale, Milan; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany; and El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota, among other places. In 2015 she received the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2017, Snelling was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, and also completed a permanent sculptural commissions at the Historisches Museum Frankfurt. She was a 2017/2018 artist at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Her work most recently showed in the Arsenale at the Venice Biennale, sponsored by Swatch, and in the Havana Biennale 2019. Snelling will soon begin residencies at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris, and TOKAS, Tokyo, Japan. She will have solo exhibitions at Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam; Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio, Milan, in collaboration with Studio la Citta; and in Berlin with H27 Gallery, opening February 1st. Snelling lives and works in Berlin.

Manual Model Museum
MMM space reflects on the potentialities and possibilities of micro-scale exhibition making. It is inspired by Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual, where the writer handled the building as the structure for the book’s narrative.