Dirty Work

Rosario Aninat and Simon Shim-Sutcliffe
Opening: January 26, 2024, 6pm

Pech is pleased to present new works by Rosario Aninat and Simon Shim-Sutcliffe produced during a month-long residency in cooperation with House of Spouse.

Rosario Aninat and Simon Shim-Sutcliffe are a Chilean/Canadian duo with a collaborative practice combining site specific sculptures with immersive installations characterised by an imploding infrastructural logic. They graduated from the Städelschule under Willem de Rooij and Hassan Khan.

The bodily landscape coexists with natural and urban landscapes, with the artists building upon their shared experience of how monumental infrastructure shapes our contemporary world. They examine how the ruins of modernity are evident in the socio-material remnants; of oil fields and pipelines, mega highways, canals and sewers, and an ever growing pile of rubble. In a disquieting kind of fragility, the installations ensure that viewers are ultimately affected by its energy.

Recent exhibitions include ‘Underbelly’, Etta, Dusseldorf (2023); ‘Odyssées Urbaines’, Fondation Fiminco, Paris (2023); ‘Come Hell or High Water’, Mutter, Amsterdam (2022); ‘Bones’, fffriedrich, Frankfurt (2021); ‘And Amasia’, Jo-Anne, Frankfurt (2021); ‘Digital Dadaism’, Tor Art Space, Frankfurt (2021). They have been awarded grants by the Canada Council for the Arts – Concept to Realization (2022), and the Kulturamt Frankfurt Grant (2021/2).