PNI @ 10
PNI, London
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PNI @ 10, 2023
Project Native Informant, London
Georgie Nettell
Radical
2022
Site specific wall painting
Dimensions variable
Hal Fischer
Dominance
1977, printed 2017
Carbon pigment print
76.2 x 61 cm
30 x 24 in
Adam Gordon
Untitled
2023
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 40.5 x 2 cm
12 x 16 x 3/4 in
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PNI @ 10, 2023
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Kenneth Bergfeld
Metallic Intuition
2023
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 x 2 cm
15 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 3/4 in
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PNI @ 10, 2023
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GCC
Inaugural Summit, Morschach 2013 9
2013
Digital c-type print, framed
69 x 102.5 x 4.5 cm
27 1/8 x 40 3/8 x 1 3/4 in
Flo Brooks
Herd of the Year
2020
Acrylic on wood
186 x 288 x 4.5 cm
73 1/4 x 113 3/8 x 1 3/4 in
Flo Brooks
Detail: Herd of the Year
2020
Acrylic on wood
186 x 288 x 4.5 cm
73 1/4 x 113 3/8 x 1 3/4 in
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Morag Keil
Fragment of L.I.B.E.R.T.Y
2022
Wood, plywood, filler and fake money
85 x 88 x 8 cm
33 1/2 x 34 5/8 x 3 1/8 in
Morag Keil
Detail: Fragment of L.I.B.E.R.T.Y
2022
Wood, plywood, filler and fake money
85 x 88 x 8 cm
33 1/2 x 34 5/8 x 3 1/8 in
Morag Keil
Detail: Fragment of L.I.B.E.R.T.Y
2020
Wood, plywood, filler and fake money
85 x 88 x 8 cm
33 1/2 x 34 5/8 x 3 1/8 in
Anna Jung Seo
Silver Moon adding Kaleidoscopic colours on everything
2023
Oil on linen, framed
35.5 x 26.5 x 5.5 cm
14 x 10 3/8 x 2 1/8 in
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PNI @ 10, 2023
Project Native Informant, London
Installation View
PNI @ 10, 2023
Project Native Informant, London
Clémentine Bruno
TOTAL XVIII
2023
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
37 x 64.5 x 3.5 cm
14 5/8 x 25 3/8 x 1 3/8 in
DIS
Fossil passing
2023
Giclée print on cotton rag, pen on Post-It notes, custom burnt walnut shutter frame
146 x 112 x 7.5 cm
57 1/2 x 44 1/8 x 3 in
DIS
Detail: Fossil passing
2023
Giclée print on cotton rag, pen on Post-It notes, custom burnt walnut shutter frame
146 x 112 x 7.5 cm
57 1/2 x 44 1/8 x 3 in
DIS
Detail: Fossil passing
2023
Giclée print on cotton rag, pen on Post-It notes, custom burnt walnut shutter frame
146 x 112 x 7.5 cm
57 1/2 x 44 1/8 x 3 in
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PNI @ 10, 2023
Project Native Informant, London
Installation View
PNI @ 10, 2023
Project Native Informant, London
Juliana Huxtable
S.H.A.R.P.
2018
Oil, acrylic, fabric, handmade buttons, metal grommets and inkjet print on canvas, framed
91 x 80 x 3 cm
35 7/8 x 31 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
Juliana Huxtable
Detail: S.H.A.R.P.
2018
Oil, acrylic, fabric, handmade buttons, metal grommets and inkjet print on canvas, framed
91 x 80 x 3 cm
35 7/8 x 31 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
Juliana Huxtable
Detail: S.H.A.R.P.
2018
Oil, acrylic, fabric, handmade buttons, metal grommets and inkjet print on canvas, framed
91 x 80 x 3 cm
35 7/8 x 31 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
Michael Andrew Page
Bivvy 7.5
2023
Oil on linen
100 x 80 x 3 cm
39 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
Harumi Yamaguchi
Blue Morning
1974
Acrylic on board, framed
63.5 x 75.5 x 5.5 cm
25 x 29 3/4 x 2 1/8 in
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Sophia Al-Maria
Put them to sleep face down forever, this is what the truth fucking looks lik
2022
Acrylic, pastel, oil stick, iPhone case, stickers, plastic sword, c-type prints, acetate and found material on latex print on board, framed
165 x 125 x 6.5 cm
65 x 49 1/4 x 2 1/2 in
Sophia Al-Maria
Detail: Put them to sleep face down forever, this is what the truth fucking looks lik
2022
Acrylic, pastel, oil stick, iPhone case, stickers, plastic sword, c-type prints, acetate and found material on latex print on board, framed
165 x 125 x 6.5 cm
65 x 49 1/4 x 2 1/2 in
Sophia Al-Maria
Detail: Put them to sleep face down forever, this is what the truth fucking looks lik
2022
Acrylic, pastel, oil stick, iPhone case, stickers, plastic sword, c-type prints, acetate and found material on latex print on board, framed
165 x 125 x 6.5 cm
65 x 49 1/4 x 2 1/2 in
Joseph Yaeger
Good listener
2023
Watercolour on gessoed canvas
66 x 51 x 4.5 cm
26 x 20 1/8 x 1 3/4 in
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Sean Steadman
Cache (lattice)
2023
Oil and charcoal on canvas, framed
98.5 x 124 x 6 cm
38 3/4 x 48 7/8 x 2 3/8 in
Sean Steadman
Detail: Cache (lattice)
2023
Oil and charcoal on canvas, framed
98.5 x 124 x 6 cm
38 3/4 x 48 7/8 x 2 3/8 in
Sean Steadman
Detail: Cache (lattice)
2023
Oil and charcoal on canvas, framed
98.5 x 124 x 6 cm
38 3/4 x 48 7/8 x 2 3/8 in
Dozie Kanu
Bench on 84s (Smeared)
2023
Poured concrete, acrylic and steel
54.5 x 260 x 47 cm
21 1/2 x 102 3/8 x 18 1/2 in
PNI@10 brings together, for the first time, Project Native Informant’s program artists IRL.
In 2012, when I was offered the infamous garage on Brooks Mews, Mayfair, I didn't envision we would still be operating today. I started Project Native Informant as a curatorial experiment, inviting friends and accomplices to initiate projects. Over time, I became aware that the artists shared a similar sensibility. While the processes and outcomes vary, each were grappling with the ever-shifting, unpredictable, improbable, yet very much real, present. As in Walter Benjamin’s reading of Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus, it’s hard to see beyond the wreckage.
Like many of the initial group of artists who joined the program - Georgie Nettell, Juliana Huxtable, Morag Keil, Sean Steadman, Sophia Al-Maria and the artist collectives DIS, GCC and Shanzhai Biennial - Project Native Informant emerged out of the 2008 double stock and subprime housing crisis, their antecedents going as far back as the advent of empire and chattel capitalism, to its current neoliberal form. On the other hand, new technologies of production after the digital have changed the ways artists conceptualize and produce work.
If there is an art historical lineage which enjoins all the program artists’ practices together, it may be a form of “expanded institutional critique”. As they critically investigate the institution in various forms, be it infrastructural systems and/or their chosen mediums, the artists question their own role within the art ecosystem. This is arguably apt to describe the initial group and more recent artists who joined the program - Adam Gordon, Anna Jung Seo, Clémentine Bruno, Dozie Kanu, Flo Brooks, Joseph Yaeger, Kenneth Bergfeld and Michael Andrew Page - as well as historical positions by Hal Fischer and Harumi Yamaguchi. In their specific way, each explore the limits and potentialities of the present, reshaping our visions, our thoughts and our dreams of the future.
It is with this spirit in mind PNI@10 is presented. Less a marker of periodization, more a vibe.
With love and solidarity,
Stephan