Christian Holstad at Victoria Miro Venice

Coming soon

Christian Holstad: Time wounds all heels

10 April–8 May 2021 (Dates subject to change in line with government regulations)

Victoria Miro Venice

Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition in #venice by #christianholstad. The US artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Time wounds all heels features new two- and three-dimensional works in ceramic, crochet, fabric, and pencil, and an earlier Eraserhead drawing that acts as a touchstone for this body of work.

United by attitude rather than medium or method, Christian Holstad’s work probes received ideas about class, value, culture and society, often leading the viewer on richly evocative journeys into cycles of creation, growth, consumption and dissipation. The title of this exhibition is borrowed from a pun about comeuppance for poor behaviour (heel in this instance meaning a disreputable person), based on the aphorism ‘time heals all wounds’. Holstad first saw it in on a plaque in a queer bar, where it could also have referred to the heel of a foot or high-heeled shoes. This shift of definitions, altered by specific contexts or codes, acts as one conceptual guidepost for the works on view.

Further information in the link: https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/584/