Sharp Projects (DK)

Sharp Projects was founded in 2021 by American independent curator, Ilethia Sharp. Sharp Projects is a contemporary art gallery and curatorial project space with an international focus.

Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2024, Sharp Projects will present works by Julie Falk, Wisrah C.V. da R. Celestino, and Mariya Pepelanova. The presentation includes glass-printed photography, a wall-hanging sculptural assemblage, and a self-standing sculpture—artistic practices that align with the gallery’s vision and program.

Julie Falk (DK)

Julie Falk takes discarded bodies as a point of departure—from bronze casts of hair cut from hospital-prescribed wigs to enlargements of cardboard tubes from used fireworks, giant phallic figures that seem over-run, deformed, and embrittled, resting on the floor in the exhibition’s front space. Falk points to the bodily displacement of the artist herself, working away from the studio, as an inverse or anti-position, operating at odds, and meanwhile collecting scrap materials—forms that are discarded, abject, or thrown from use or even from art: Antiforms.

Julie Falk (b. 1991, Copenahgen; DK) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark, educated at Konsthogskolna Malmö, Sweden. Falk has recently held solo and group exhibitions at venues including All all all, (Copenhagen; DK), Galleri Susanne Ottesen (Copenhagen; DK), and KØS Museum for kunst i det offentlige rum (Køge; DK). In 2023 she received Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize for sculptors.

You Feed From Us

Bronze
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

I’m Not One

Marble, anchor steel
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

I’m Not One

Marble, anchor steel
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

Antiform

Installation View
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

Antiform

Installation View
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

Julie Falk, Antiform, Installation View, O—Overgaden, 2024

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects. Photo by David Stjernholm

Mariya Pepelanova (BG)

Pepelanova’s artistic approach blends old and new mediums to invite viewers into a world where the past meets the future. She focuses on both the digital and analog aspects found in contemporary art, fashion, and photography. Her style and works present understanding of composition, framing, as well as the tactile dimensions and potentials in digital photography.

Mariya Pepelanova (b. Pazardjik, BG) lives and works between Copenhagen, Denmark and Paris, France. Pepelanova is a multidisciplinary artist working between photography and digital innovations. In fashion photography she has worked for clients including Balmain, Marine Serre, and the French fashion house Balmain.

Purple

2024

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects

 

Untitled

2024

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Wisrah C.V. da R. Celestino (BR)

Through sculpture, text, photography, sound and video, Wisrah C.V. da R. Celestino explores the relationship between exhibition space, power, and economics. Their concept of “reverse architecture” challenges the idea of a neutral space, revealing the complex economic and power relations that shape it, within a modern capitalist context in the Global South.

Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino (b. 1989, Buritizeiro; BR) lives and works between Braunschweig, Germany, and São Paulo, Brazil. Through scores, sculpture, text, photography, sound, and video, their work addresses the remaining structures of the transatlantic colonial project, focusing on institutional critique, private property, and the relationship between nature and capital.

RENTAL/FATHER

2023

Courtesy of the artist and Sharp Projects

 

Belonging

2022

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Lot

2022

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Keys

2021

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Bottoms

2022

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Dog

2021

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Sharp Projects facade

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