Circus Lodge
Maria Gorodeckaya3.9–8.10.2023
231 Northdown Rd
Margate, Kent
CT9 2PJ

Roland Ross is pleased to present Circus Lodge, a new installation by Maria Gorodeckaya incorporating reworked garments of clothing, imprinted glass, a sound work and a publication.
Circus Lodge centres around what a person leaves behind. Partly consisting of items the artist has collected and recomposed from what she has found or been given in the wake of a relationship ending.
Verging on the obsessive, the works in this exhibition play with the idea of a romanticised figure or muse, historically female, but in this case, presumably male. These objects set the stage for a fantasy scenario that explores the power dynamics between artist and subject.
Circus Lodge may thus appear to both feed the urge for and represent a strategy to reinstate agency when faced with an impossible object of desire.
To accompany this exhibiton the artist has produced a publication which is available on request.
Written in collaboration with Marie-Alix Isdahl, a writer and PhD practice-based researcher studying at Goldsmiths and co-founder of Schloss, Oslo, Norway.
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Steel frame, stained glass, body imprints, bedroom window rubbings
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Steel frame, reworked garments of clothing, cat hair
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