Rochelle Goldberg

The work of Vancouver-born, Berlin-based artist Rochelle Goldberg finds root in the unstable boundaries between seemingly fixed entities: animate and inanimate, self and other, renewal and decay. Her sculptures often merge ephemeral and enduring matter such as crude oil, bronze, glitter, steel, and seeds to enact installations that project forward and backward in time, combining art historical iconography with allusions to ongoing processes of transformation, contamination and growth.

In *Sun Moon Stars*, Goldberg continues her engagement with Mary of Egypt, a fifth-century saint who has served as a recurring point of reference in her practice. Historically framed as a repentant sinner who turned away from the carnal and material to pursue a life of scarcity in the desert, the artist recasts Mary here in dialogue with the image of another highly determined figure — the 20th-century pinup model — tracing the anachronistic frameworks that tether these icons to both one another and the present moment. The images and forms that Goldberg marshals in this scene are at once fragmentary, suspended and unfixed, pointing us toward continuous cycles of making and unmaking — material, mythical and epistemological — and to the sedimentary structures that have long shaped Western constructions of body, self and environment.

*Sun Moon Stars* (2023) was originally commissioned by Mercer Union, Toronto.

#### Biography
Rochelle Goldberg lives and works in Berlin. Her solo exhibitions include Mercer Union, Toronto; Commercial Street, Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany; The Power Station, Dallas; GAMeC di Bergamo, Italy; and SculptureCenter, New York. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at institutions such as Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Oakville Galleries, Canada; Montpellier Contemporain; Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Dortmunder Kunstverein, Germany; and Swiss Institute, New York, amongst others. She was Artist in Residence at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa and Atelier Calder, France, and was selected to present for the inaugural Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York (2019). She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York.

Exhibition Essay Booklet - Rochelle Goldberg.pdf

CAG - Rochelle Goldberg - Exhibition Guide - Regular Print - P1.pdf

CAG - Rochelle Goldberg - Exhibition Guide - Large Print - P1.pdf

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A wide view of several sculptures hanging from wire: magic wands, vanity lights and silver baguettes. Two bronze sulptures of partial human figures sit among aluminum cans and painted baguettes on the floor.

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A bronze sculpture of a partial human figure sits on aluminum cans on a concrete floor. The sculpture's form appears to be precarious. Behind it are silver baguettes and aluminum cans.

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A wide view of several sculptures hanging from wire: magic wands, vanity lights and silver baguettes. A bronze sulpture of a partial human figure sits among aluminum cans and painted baguettes scattered across the floor.

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A textured bronze sculpture of a partial human figure. The sculpture appears to be disintegrating.

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A bronze sculpture of a partial human figure sits on aluminum cans on a concrete floor. The sculpture's form appears to be precarious. Nearby are a vanity light, more aluminum cans, silver baguettes, and bronze cans that appear to be melting.

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A bronze sculpture of a partial human figure sits among aluminum cans, baguettes and smaller bronze forms. Above, a magic wand, silver baguettes and a vanity light hang from wire.

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A wide view of vanity lights and silver magic wands hanging from wire. A bronze sulpture of a partial human figure sits on aluminum cans.

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A detail of a sculpture comprised of silver-painted baguettes, wire, aluminum cans and a bronze can.

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A detail of a sculpture comprised of silver-painted baguettes, wire, aluminum cans and a bronze can. The bronze can is in focus and its background is blurred.

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A detail of a sculpture comprised of silver-painted baguettes, wire, aluminum cans and a bronze can whose form appears to be disintegrating.

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A silver magic wand, a vanity light and dozens of painted baguettes are held by wire fixed to the wall. Four wires hang from the silver wand and stretch out of frame.

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A worm's eye view of dozens of silver-painted baguettes and a magic wand held by several wires. Above them the ceiling lights are visible.

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Vanity lights and a dozen silver baguettes hang from wires fixed to the wall. On the floor are another vanity light, more silver baguettes and aluminum cans.

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A detail view of a silver magic wand. In the background are a vanity light and more magic wands hanging from wire.

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A wide view of several sculptures hanging from wire: magic wands, vanity lights and silver baguettes. Two bronze sulptures of partial human figures sit among aluminum cans, a vanity light, glass bowls, and painted baguettes on the floor.

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A sculpture comprised of three glass bowls and five aluminum cans. One of the cans is tied to wire that stretches out of frame.

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A detail of a sculpture comprised of glass bowls, wire, aluminum cans, and a ball with copper coins sticking out.

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Sun Moon Stars

Diane Severin Nguyen

Across her moving image work, Diane Severin Nguyen depicts characters driven to express the enigmatic truths of their existence. Faced with the stultifying effects of historical trauma and the ungraspable nature of intergenerational memory, Nguyen’s works explore her protagonists’ struggle to realize their agency in the present. 

At the Contemporary Art Gallery, Nguyen presents *In Her Time (Iris’ Version)*, a new edit of her 2023 feature-length film *In Her Time*. Set amid the outsized period sets of Hengdian World Studios, the largest film studio in Asia, the film follows Iris, a young actress searching for her voice as she prepares for the leading role in a Chinese historical epic. Couched in the conceit of a “making of” special, *In Her Time* depicts Iris behind the scenes, rehearsing lines and describing the artistic process of coming to inhabit her character. Throughout, she deliberates over the demand the film places upon her to master performing pain and victimization. *Iris’ Version* introduces new content shot from Iris’ iPhone camera, intercutting the “official” footage with reflections on the filmmaking process from the actress’ perspective.

*In Her Time* was commissioned and produced by the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, with support from the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. 

*Iris’ Version* is 67 minutes and begins at the following times each day:
12:00, 1:10, 2:20, 3:30, 4:40

#### Biography
Diane Severin Nguyen works with photography, video and installation. Through material and sculptural experimentations, Nguyen approaches the photographic moment as one of transformation. The artist is particularly interested in exceeding photography as a mode of documentation, and engages with it rather as a set of conditions shaped by desire and speculation. Her video work narrativizes these tensions by examining the histories of power, victimhood and forms of propaganda that underpin cultural (and self) image-making. She has exhibited her work internationally, in places like SculptureCenter, The Renaissance Society, Rockbund Art Museum, MoMA PS1, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Schinkel Pavilion, Jeu du Paume, the Hammer Museum, and many others. Her films have been screened at film festivals such as the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Berlinale. Nguyen is a recent recipient of the 2023 Guggenheim fellowship and lives and works in New York.

CAG - Diane Severin Nguyen - Exhibition Guide - Large Print - FINAL.pdf

CAG - Diane Severin Nguyen - Exhibition Guide - Regular Print - FINAL.pdf

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Diagonal view of four benches facing a large screen with pink and red ribbons forming a curtain around the perimeter. Onscreen, a child sits on a bed in a dark room, clutching a pink object and looking out a window.

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View of a large screen seen through a wall of pink and ribbon ribbons. Onscreen, a woman lies on a bed with arms crossed gazing into the eyes of a stuffed yellow bear wearing a red ascot.

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Two rows of benches face a screen in a room with pink and red ribbons walls. Onscreen, red liquid drips down the palm of a paper cut-out propaganda-style image of a young girl saluting. 

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Two rows of benches face a screen in a room with pink and red ribbons walls. Onscreen, an image of a woman blowdrying her hair is overlain on a collage made of movie paraphernalia.

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Two rows of benches face a screen in a room with pink and red ribbons walls. Onscreen, a woman faces the viewer with the text caption If I hadn’t created my own world at the bottom of the screen. 

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If I hadn’t created my own world, I would have died in someone else’s

Zoe Leonard

Across a career spanning more than four decades, New York-based artist Zoe Leonard has honed a singular artistic vision, coupling a precise engagement with the politics of image-making with acute, often poetic observations of daily life. Addressing themes that include gender and sexuality, mourning, displacement and migration, and the urban landscape, amongst others, her work in photography, sculpture and installation effects a complex consideration of the act of looking and the role of photographic culture in ordering our worlds.

At the Contemporary Art Gallery, Leonard presents *View from Below*, a suite of photographs taken at fashion shows in the early 1990s. Produced at a moment when Leonard was engaged closely with the politics of gender, representation and display, these images are part of a larger nexus of works that saw the artist probing the mechanisms that produce and regulate the body. In this series of photographs, Leonard presents multiple and divergent perspectives on the runway, surveying a shifting field of looks among and between models, spectators and photographers, including herself. Registering gazes that are by turns voyeuristic, objectifying and self-possessed, these images compel a broad set of questions around desire, power, performance, and subjectivity.

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Zoe Leonard has exhibited widely since the late 1980s. Her work has been featured in a number of landmark exhibitions, including Documenta IX, Documenta XII, and the 1993, 1997 and 2014 Whitney Biennials. She has been the subject of solo shows at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018), MoMA, New York (2015), and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2007–08), among other institutions. Leonard was a finalist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 and was awarded The Whitney Museum Bucksbaum Prize in 2014 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. Her works are held in many public institutions, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Pinault Collection, Venice; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

#### Acknowledgements
*Zoe Leonard: View from Below* is generously supported by Claudia Beck.