The Arch And The Knots
Erika Roux & Isabel Marcos

Over the period from 16 July to 9 September 2018, Rib will accommodate the production and presentation of Erika Roux and Isabel Marcos’s new, individual projects. The space will become the meeting point for these two artists who share common interest in the fictionalization of their immediate real life environments to express their artistic questions.

Isabel Marcos will continue her research on how space exists beyond the natural-cultural dichotomy, the way that humans conceptualize it, by producing a new project that revolves around the fictive story of a nomadic garden, Erika Roux will work on a new video that evokes tension and conflicts between fictional characters. She will conceive this mode of communication as a narrative motor through a non-linear storytelling. While drawing her scenes from everyday life she will transform existing and familiar spaces such as her neighborhood, her own apartment, into a dramaturgic environment in which the characters will be intertwined in complex relationships

Marcos and Roux believe in the potential of how scripted stages can become improvised situations and, during the Summer Lab, they will experiment with their methods of narration and script writing. The space will become a stimulating platform where both artists will open up to the influence of each other and will explore new means of production that go beyond the usual digital tools in which their works are shaped (such as computers and cameras).

The public will be invited to witness the work in progress during limited open studio hours, on a regular basis. Summer Lab will culminate in a two-person exhibition running from 30 August until 9 September.