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Heidi Bucher, Helena Huneke, Willa Wasserman, Mira M. Yang

Info: Drei is pleased to announce Mother of Pearl, a group exhibition bringing together works by Heidi Bucher, Helena Huneke, Willa Wasserman, and Mira M. Yang. In Mother of Pearl, historical and recent works by four international artists from three generations come together. Their practices are connected by an engagement with personal and collective memory, experience, and the traces they leave behind. In the center of the exhibition hangs Heidi Bucher’s (1926–1993) Untitled (Puerta del Palacio Ico) (1986), a key work of the artist’s late creation period on the Spanish island of Lanzarote where she spent the last decade of her life (1983–1993) and part of her major retrospective at Haus der Kunst in Munich (Metamorphosen, 2021). (…) The cutting intimate experiments of Helena Huneke (1967–2012) are represented by Claus und Stefan (2003). Huneke’s warped, colorful palette is merely suggested in this phantasmatic tableau on linen, featuring numerous seemingly unrelated and personal objects such as clothes, a badminton racket, painting supplies, sewn and glued onto the linen cloth which also supports drawings, embroidery, writings, and even pastel-like reliefs made of hardened paint. (…) The lush brushstrokes of Willa Wasserman (b. 1990) rely as much on negative space as on color. Her paintings play with the nature of opacity. Faces and flowers are easy to mistake for one another on her surfaces. (…) Mira M. Yang’s (b. 1993) work, which was on view at the 15th Gwangju Biennial in 2024, is at the center of the second exhibition room, the portrait room. (…)