Angelique Heidler — Bad Water

Piselli, Installation View

Piselli, Installation View

Piselli, Installation View

Smoke, 2020, charcoal, collage, patch and sewn sublimation print on fabric, 50 cm x 40 cm

Honey Tramonto, 2020, acrylic, collage, gold plated metal pieces and sewn sublimation print on fabric, 50 cm x 40 cm

Triangle Amoureux, 2020, acrylic, charcoal, oil, Swarovski crystal sheet, collage and sewn sublimation print on fabric, 50 cm x 40 cm

Bible, 2020, acrylic, oil bar,collage, silver plated metal flower, Swarovski crystal, and sewn sublimation print on fabric, 50 cm x 40 cm

Weena, 2020, acrylic, stickers and sewn sublimation print on fabric, 50 cm x 40 cm

True Romance, 2020, acrylic, collage, fabrics and sewn sublimation print on fabric, 50 cm x 40 cm

Koka Kola, 2020, acrylic, collage and sawn sublimation print on fabric, 50 cm x 40 cm

Arrhythmia (for Angelique)

01/10/21

Hello,
my body is giving me a profound trouble
the electrical impulses governing my heart rate have gone haywire
and the repercussions are monumental

my palpitations are abnormal,
resulting in a set of circumstances my doctor says are entirely new
says I’m lucky to champion a new frontier of feeling

02/10/21

the situation is developing
the birds around me seem to sing my name
flying by in a cosine wave, they emulate my arrhythmia

they tell me congratulations,
that I’ve won a genetic lottery,
and I suspect they’re terribly right

03/10/21

I’m emitting all sorts of sounds and vibrations
they echo across my windowless walls,
hop-scotching across each spot in the wallpaper

above me, the moon ripens
I know this not because I can see it,
but because she told me so

04/10/21

all day, i’ve been caught in a fever
panting and sweating through synthetic sheets,
my colour perception is playing tricks
I’m red, I’m purple, I’m fucking orange

but most of all, I believe I’m blue
because my veins are boiling
cooking me slowly from the inside out until tender like a crockpot stew
I’d burn your tongue but still be worth it

05/10/21

nobody plans their fall from the sky
a pierced wing, wildfire, a failed engine,
the fall is beyond divination
a fold to gravity

on the floor, a million women smile down at me
with sharpened teeth, i’m quivering in my cocoon

06/10/2021

I wake up and I’m alive
I’m on zoom, but I’m muted
(maintaining my legacy)

for the first time in days I twist the doorknob
to inhale a gust of cool wind
my lungs collapse and the spell is broken

07/10/21

the emissions have subsided and my vision is clear
I’m rinsing my hair with vinegar
hoping to impress

my appetite is coming back
i’m out for blood and green peas

— text by Danica Pinteric

Attraction and repulsion, innocence and violence, obsession and indifference; in her new body of work, Paris-born artist Angélique Heidler investigates the paradoxical dualities embedded within mainstream depictions of both femininity and romance. In her signature style of adorning the painted canvas with personal objects and images through collage and sublimation printing techniques, Heidler brings together these contrasting forces, highlighting their hybridity through a series of playful compositions. Touching on themes of childlike fantasy, consumption, and indulgence, Heidler’s wide scope of aesthetic reference speaks to the highly nuanced construction of gender and the self through late-captialism’s endless horizon of media representation and branded products. The exhibition’s title, Piselli, represents Heidler’s tongue-in-cheek humour well, simultaneously referring to the Italian word for green peas as well as children’s slang for male genitalia.

The accompanying text, Arrhythmia (for Angelique), intuitively tethers the conceptual and figurative themes in Piselli, told through a fictional sequence of narrative journal entries—a formal approach inspired by the early-2000s diary of a young girl found tucked away in the gallery space, abandoned by its previous owner.

Piselli is Heidler’s first solo exhibition in the United States.

Angélique Heidler is a French painter born in 1992, she lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, in 2015. Her intuitive practice questions societies’ issues though its existing imagery and fragments. She aims to highlight the absurd and marginal by collaging her paintings with stereotypes. Her work has been shown in France and internationally, in solo and collective exhibitions such as : Haus Wien, Ginny on Frederick, Vienna, 2021; Masterless Eye, Yudik One, Brescia, 2021; Your Friends and Neighbors, Hight Art, Paris, 2020; Softview/Privatissime, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen, 2020; Stay Safe, Shivers Only, Chantemanche, 2020; This Tragedy, Fonda, Leipzig, 2020; BAITBALL (01), Palazzo San Guiseppe, Polignano A Mare, 2020; solo presentation, Shivers Only, Material Art Fair, Mexico City, 2020; Heidler Mailaender, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, 2019; On ne sait plus quoi penser du serpent qui a peur, Galerie l’Inlassable, Paris, 2019; Outside Our, Villa Emerige, Paris, 2018; The Unlimited Dream Company, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2017; The Dark Ages, Supplement Gallery, London, 2017. She was a resident at Plop (UK, 2019), LaWayaka Current (PA, 2016), Villa Lena (IT, 2016) and is currently a resident at Stadtgalerie Bern, (CH, 2021). She was shortlisted for the 5th edition of the Révélations Emerige award (FR, 2018).

Audrey Gair
Rind

opening November 22, 2024

Phyllis Baldino, Max Guy & Ellie Rae Hunter
Outliners
October 4 - November 10, 2024

Elly Reitman
energy
August 16 - September 20, 2024

Michelle Grabner, Kathleen Morris & Bronson Smillie
The Weather, or some other accident, curated by Danica Pinteric
July 12 - July 29, 2024

Tiziana La Melia
Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster
June 7 - July 6, 2024

Jacob Jackmauh, Caitlin McCann & Benjamin Stallings
As for me, I’m just passing through this planet
March 8 - April 14, 2024

Irina Jasnowski Pascual
Wipers
September 15 - October 29, 2023

Coco Klockner
honesty
July 8 - August 6, 2023

Morgan Canavan, Ben Estes, Marisa Takal
More Coming Back & More Returning
May 5 - June 11, 2023

Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Center of the Universe
August 5 - September 18, 2022

Amanda Horowitz
Bad Water, True West or Between Myself the Crickets and the Coyote
performed by Sophia Cleary and Ada Friedman
July 14 & July 15, 2022

Suzanna Zak
Coming Home to the Ice Age
opening May 13 - June 24, 2022

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Michelle Grabner, Kathleen Morris & Bronson Smillie The Weather, or some other accident, curated by Danica PintericJuly 12 - July 29, 2024 Tiziana La Melia Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster June 7 - July 6, 2024

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Michelle Grabner, Kathleen Morris & Bronson Smillie
The Weather, or some other accident, curated by Danica Pinteric
July 12 - July 29, 2024

Tiziana La Melia
Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster
June 7 - July 6, 2024

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located beside
320 E. Churchwell Ave
Knoxville, Tennessee