• Dana Powell: Junk World

    Art Basel Hong Kong | Kabinett
  • We are pleased to present new paintings by Dana Powell for Art Basel Hong Kong Kabinett.


    Continuing the portrayal of transitional spaces and moments of suspense, Powell’s newest paintings explore ideas around environmentalism and the place of humans in nature. These paintings are charged with ambiguity and tension, but also include moments of humor and joy, beauty and respite.

     

     

    我们荣幸于本届巴塞尔艺术展香港展会策展角落呈 达娜·鲍威尔的新作个人项目。

     

    鲍威尔的最新画作持续描绘过渡空间和不安的时刻,探讨环境主义和人类在自然世界中的地位。这些画作充满了全世界都能感受到的焦虑,但也有幽默和欢乐、美妙和轻松的时刻。

    • Image of Red sky
      Dana Powell, Red sky, 2024
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    • Image of Tracks
      Dana Powell, Tracks, 2024
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  • Capturing suspended moments, with works activating scenarios that await some conclusion, Powell's paintings of moons, eggs, and inanimate commonplace objects...
    Capturing suspended moments, with works activating scenarios that await some conclusion, Powell's paintings of moons, eggs, and inanimate commonplace objects further the tradition attached to still life painting and explore the possibilities of portraying time, as it unfolds in a static frame.
     

    鲍威尔以月亮、鸡蛋和无生命的日常事物为题材,捕捉悬浮的瞬间,作品激活了等待被结论的情景,进一步延展静物画的传统,并探索描绘时间的可能性:时间是在静态的框架中展开的。

    • Image of Grid
      Dana Powell, Grid, 2024
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    • Image of Egg
      Dana Powell, Egg, 2024
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    • Image of Berry cheesecake
      Dana Powell, Berry cheesecake, 2024
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    • Image of Trees
      Dana Powell, Trees, 2023
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  • Powell’s investigations distill the unease of today. Night time narratives are especially palpable psychological atmospheres. Cinematic details and an impermeable ambience describe a suspense that is neither outright scary nor sad, but quietly unreachable and ominous. These familiar scenarios oscillate between the fixed and the abstract, showing that uneventfulness can be just as jarring as the extraordinary.
     

    鲍威尔的绘画研究浓缩了当今的不安气氛。夜间叙事的心理氛围尤为明显。电影般的细节和难以渗透的氛围形成一种悬念,它既不直截了当地令人恐惧,也不令人悲伤,而是悄无声息地让人难以接近,让人感到不安。这些熟悉的场景在具象与抽象之间摇摆,显示出平淡无奇与超凡脱俗是同样震撼人心。

    • Image of Forest fire
      Dana Powell, Forest fire, 2024
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    • Image of Cold drive
      Dana Powell, Cold drive, 2024
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    • Image of Tunnel
      Dana Powell, Tunnel, 2024
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  • Portraying a dislodged relationship to the familiar, Powell’s distilled moments in time are imbued with duplicity—a suggestion of something uncanny or anxious, which could also be nothing at all.

     

    鲍威尔描绘了一种我们与熟悉事物之间的错位关系,她所提炼的瞬间充满两面性:他们暗示着某种不可思议或令人焦虑的东西,但也亦非所以。

    • Image of Mourning moon
      Dana Powell, Mourning moon, 2024
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    • Image of Battery fire
      Dana Powell, Battery fire, 2024
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    • Image of Cold moon
      Dana Powell, Cold moon, 2024
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    • Image of Crescent moon
      Dana Powell, Crescent moon, 2023
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    • Image of Crescent moon
      Dana Powell, Crescent moon, 2024
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  • Born in 1989 in Milwaukee, WI, Dana Powell lives and works in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The artist graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union in 2015 and completed a residency at the Still House Group the following year. Powell has been included in several exhibitions throughout the US, most notably Particularities, curated by Chris Sharp, X Museum (Beijing, 2021) and The Lure of the Dark, curated by Susan Cross, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, MA, 2019).  This will be Powell's first presentation of work in Hong Kong.

     

    达娜·鲍威尔1989 年出生于美国威斯康星州密尔沃基市,目前在北卡罗来纳州温斯顿-塞勒姆生活和工作。她于 2015 年在库珀联盟(Cooper Union)获得纯艺术学士学位,并于次年完成了在 Still House Group 的驻留。达娜·鲍威尔曾多次参加在美国及国际上举办的展览,包括由Chris Sharp策划、在X美术馆举办的“Particularities”(北京,2021),以及由Susan Cross策划、马萨诸塞州当代艺术博物馆举办的 "The Lure of the Dark”(马萨诸塞州北亚当斯,2019)。本次是达娜·鲍威尔首次在香港展出作品及呈现个人项目。