glitter, plastic rose, disco motor, jewellery chainStudio/Chapple
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This striking image depicts a delicate, frost-covered pinecone suspended against a softly colored background. The muted tones of gray, brown, and orange create a serene and contemplative atmosphere. The detailed textures and intricate patterns of the pinecone's scales are brought to the forefront, showcasing the natural beauty and resilience of this botanical form. The artist's use of close-up framing and shallow depth of field emphasizes the fragile and ephemeral nature of the subject, inviting the viewer to pause and appreciate the quiet elegance of this natural wonder. The meditative quality of the artwork suggests a deeper exploration of themes such as the cycles of growth and decay in the natural world. ...
Maria Joranko turns the body into a terrain of memory, experimentation, and speculative possibility, weaving art, writing, and performance into a unified practice. Her practice spans sculpture, installation, performance, video, and sound, interrogating the intersections of chronic illness, race, solidarity, and alternative realities. Through this lens, she examines the potentials and vulnerabilities of selfhood, creating works that reflect the fluidity of identity, growth, and perception. Oscillating between natural and digital materials, Joranko crafts immersive environments that connect cyber and organic networks, cultivating spaces for reflection, transformation, and liberation. Her practice engages deeply with pain—bodily, emotional, communal, and spiritual—as a grounding force for transmutation and collective healing. She integrates meditation, bodywork, and material exploration into her creative process. Using soil, plant-based materials, and ancestral knowledge, she constructs objects and performances that function as relics from possible futures rooted in equity, magic, and relational connection. Drawing on her Latinx, American, and Indigenous heritage, as well as decolonial and activist practices, Joranko centers the body and community as sites for imagining new forms of care, restoration, and collective possibility. ...
Studio/Chapple is a contemporary art gallery and project space in Deptford, South-East London. Positioned at the intersection between contemporary emerging art, club culture and sonic production, the gallery activates a unique conversation that highlights the relationship between sonic and and visual artistic ecologies.
