"Archipelago Flow 3" by Theresa Weber bursts with vibrant yellow, interwoven with organic shapes and textures, creating a dynamic, layered composition. The piece features abstract forms resembling islands or channels, highlighted with blues and earth tones, suggesting a fluid, geographical map. Weber employs a collage-like technique, melding materials that evoke cultural narrative and identity. This print reflects Weber's exploration of heritage, where she navigates complex themes of visibility and hybridity, drawing from her multicultural background to question power and tradition through a decolonial lens. ...
Theresa Weber’s art boldly confronts established power structures and social norms through diverse media like installations and collaborative performances. Her work is rooted in a fluid dialogue between myth, history, and cultural narratives, which she translates into complex sculptural forms and layered collages. By incorporating materials rich with cultural significance, Weber engages with themes of identity and embodiment from a decolonial perspective, exploring how mixed heritage shapes experience. Her art reflects the continuous process of transformation within traditions, using contemporary bodily marks alongside archival techniques to trace histories of change and adaptation. Navigating the space between visibility and concealment, her pieces evoke resilience through an interplay of delicacy and strength, encouraging viewers to reconsider notions of vulnerability and power. Weber’s multicultural background—being of Jamaican, German, and Greek descent—deeply influences her creative approach, providing a unique lens through which she interrogates cultural hybridity, memory, and belonging. Through her work, she creates nuanced spaces for dialogue that honor complexity and fluid identity. ...
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.
