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Collagen is a valuable resource: the body’s most abundant protein. Amino acids are bound together in a triple helix forming an elastic structure that holds us together with a degree of pliancy, like a flexible filament woven through our skeletons and flesh. The word itself stems from the Greek for glue creation: kolla. The substance is generative (gen), healing, and strong. It constitutes our skin, fascia, bones, hearts, joints, ligaments, and tendons. Extracted through an ancient process of boiling from animal skins, it can also serve to preserve and hold together various utensils or add tensile strength to objects that require flexibility and absorption.
Hella Gerlach’s fifth exhibition at Acappella takes Collagen as its title and leitmotif. A group of recent works hangs from the ceiling. Like felted innards, appendages and bodily tissue, they sway and swing from metal fixtures and elastic bands. They move when we approach them, responding to our presence. The…
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Collagen is a valuable resource: the body’s most abundant protein. Amino acids are bound together in a triple helix forming an elastic structure that holds us together with a degree of pliancy, like a flexible filament woven through our skeletons and flesh. The word itself stems from the Greek for glue creation: kolla. The substance is generative (gen), healing, and strong. It constitutes our skin, fascia, bones, hearts, joints, ligaments, and tendons. Extracted through an ancient process of boiling from animal skins, it can also serve to preserve and hold together various utensils or add tensile strength to objects that require flexibility and absorption.
Hella Gerlach’s fifth exhibition at Acappella takes Collagen as its title and leitmotif. A group of recent works hangs from the ceiling. Like felted innards, appendages and bodily tissue, they sway and swing from metal fixtures and elastic bands. They move when we approach them, responding to our presence. The…
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