Circus Lodge

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.