Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna x Triangolo, Cremona

Jala Wahid, Daniel Graham Loxton

Sophie Tappeiner and Triangolo are pleased to present a joint booth featuring works by Jala Wahid and Daniel Graham Loxton.

 

Bringing together sculpture, moving image and painting, the presentation explores the lives of objects: how they travel across time, survive political violence, accumulate and transform meaning, and continue to shape the present.

 

Sophie Tappeiner presents a selection from Jala Wahid’s Metaphysical Reunification (2023), alongside the single-channel video I Love Ancient Baby (2023). First developed for Mock Kings at Kunsthalle Freiburg and later presented in the artist’s solo exhibition at Sophie Tappeiner, Metaphysical Reunification comprises fifty-four aluminium playing cards, each depicting an ancient artefact or fragment. Conceived in response to a deck of playing cards issued by the US Department of Defense during the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the series reflects on the histories of archaeological looting, colonial violence and the displacement of cultural heritage. Bringing together objects now dispersed across Western museum collections—or still buried and yet to be unearthed—Wahid imagines a symbolic act of reunification that unsettles fixed ideas of territory, chronology and ownership, proposing restitution not only as the return of cultural heritage but also as the recovery of relationships fractured by colonial histories.

 

Presented alongside the card works, I Love Ancient Baby extends these concerns through moving image. Interweaving ancient artefacts, museum archives and autobiographical narrative, the film folds together personal and historical time, reflecting on inheritance, grief and continuity while proposing that objects carry emotional and cultural memory across generations.

 

Triangolo presents Daniel Graham Loxton’s Untitled (Virgil), a painting developed over time between New York and Cremona. Built through successive layers of oil paint, dry pigments, found metal and paper, the work emerges through a sustained process of accumulation in which materials are allowed to shape the painting’s evolution. Rather than illustrating predetermined ideas, Loxton approaches painting as an ecology of encounters, where meaning gradually arises through the relationships between objects, place and time.

 

Together, the presentation suggests that objects are not simply witnesses to history, but active bearers of memory, imagination and cultural continuity.

 

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