Campoli Presti Gallery, Paris
HÔTEL LE LIÈVRE #5: EILEEN QUINLAN / MARINA ROSENFELD
17–31 July 2021

Campoli Presti is pleased to announce the fifth iteration of “Hôtel le Lièvre.” The installation brings together the work of artists Eileen Quinlan and Marina Rosenfeld. The works share a state of suspension between publicness and distance, attention and self-effacement that could be read as “ambient”—their grammar is that of the trace, of repetition and dissipation, like the overdetermined and liminal spaces that increasingly populate our engineered existences…

Marina Rosenfeld’s works explore the material traces of sensory experience, especially through sound and its mis en scène. Rosenfeld’s steel and aluminum sculpture emblematizes the temporal disorientation of listening in isolation, a speculative supplement to the intimate, corporeal address of music. Her mixed media work Ssalute and Receiver, produced during the pandemic in Dallas, Texas, stages an encounter with public space in a time of emergency: the spectator is a driver, enclosed in the protective isolation of their vehicle, as the cinematic desolation of the city at night accompanies a spiral ascent through a vacant parking structure. The labyrinthine environment is populated momentarily by a lone trumpet player whose musical salutation harmonizes briefly with the distorted echo of an ambulance passing below…”