Kendall Koppe is delighted to present Kris Lemsalu's second solo exhibition with the gallery, Rinky Dink Babe. Lemsalu's practice is a multidisciplinary concoction of ideas, anecdotes, forms and personal histories experienced via a community of collaborators, artists and friends. Traditionally working across a range of media, Lemsalu merges sculpture, installation and performance in a universe that fuses animal and human, nature with artifice, beauty with repulsion, lightness with gravity and life with death.
Rinky Dink Babe is Lemsalu's first exhibition that features her vivid watercolour works on paper. Painted between the studio and en plein air, each scene is a rip-roaring combination of genre painting with equal part visions and representations of both realised and unrealised installations. For Lemsalu, the veil between life and art are blurred, inextricably tangled, one never far from the other. She is currently producing her first feature film which will premiere at Tartu Museum, Tallinn in spring 2024. Micro Granny 2 is a new performance with Lemsalu and collaborator Noriko Okaku. The happening will be durational throughout the preview of Rinky Dink Babe. Please feel free to dance and celebrate if the moment takes you. The exhibition also features a response from artist Sue Tompkins, available on the gallery's limited riso-poster handout.
