Izaak Brandt: No Place Like Home
17th October, 2024 – 7th November, 2024
96 Robert St
London
NW1 3QP
Performance by Brandt scheduled for 19:00
Izaak Brandt presents No Place Like Home, a new solo exhibition running from 17 October to 7 November 2024 at 96 Robert St. The exhibition investigates ideas of memory, home, and physical embodiment. This is Brandt’s second solo show of the year and his first at this space.
A bold next step following Brandt’s recent exhibition Sporting Goods, No Place Like Home features a new body of work focusing on ghostly, hand-drawn PLA sculptures alongside new large-format sculptures, performance, film, and sound work. With Bristol, Brandt’s hometown, at the exhibition’s core, the artist explores the spaces and images of his youth—city streets and graffiti culture—to produce ghostly sculptures of items that defined adolescence: shoes, bikes, and caps. Likewise, Brandt uses graffiti as a kind of “tattoo” for his trademark sculptures; just as the human figures act as cyphers for greater, non-corporeal meaning, the application of graffiti, which covers a city’s “skin,” is applied here to the sculptural objects.
Adding to the exhibition is a new film work exploring communication through dance in urban spaces. Exhibited in the basement of the gallery, the film draws on the legacy of pioneer Jonzi D, using locations from Brandt’s childhood as backdrops for his own dance performance. This is paired with music produced by Brandt himself, his brother Magnus, GUTTR, and Digital Angel. Continuing with this theme of memory and evocation, a performance will take place within the gallery at 19:00 on the exhibition’s opening night, drawing the constituent themes full circle.
No Place Like Home marks the first collaboration between Brandt and curators Jacob Barnes and Jonny Tanna. The exhibition reflects Barnes’ first foray into the aesthetics of hip-hop and breaking, alongside Tanna’s career-long commitment to the aesthetics of hip-hop and Black culture at large.
Izaak Brandt: No Place Like Home opens on the 17th of October, 2024 until the 7th of November, 2024 at 96 Robert St
©2024 Izaak Brandt
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