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Italics, Nicole Wermers’s first solo exhibition at Deborah Schamoni, features two series of sculptural works. Domestic Tails comprises a group of hand-sewn tails in faux fur of different colours and lengths variously configured. Some are rolled out from cable or hose reels, some hang from the wall, whilst others snake across the floor, traversing the room. By contrast, Fainter on posh crisps is a series of clay sculptures of female figures in voluminous dresses, standing on bags of crisps, seemingly frozen in the moment of fainting, in descent towards the ground.
Inclining is a central theme of the exhibition. It is even indirectly inscribed in the title of the exhibition, the eponymous Italics referring to text written in a cursive slanted typeface. In 2024, Wermers designed a font called Recliner (Bold) for her exhibition that year at the Jessica Silverman Gallery. When written in this typeface, each character leans ba…
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Italics, Nicole Wermers’s first solo exhibition at Deborah Schamoni, features two series of sculptural works. Domestic Tails comprises a group of hand-sewn tails in faux fur of different colours and lengths variously configured. Some are rolled out from cable or hose reels, some hang from the wall, whilst others snake across the floor, traversing the room. By contrast, Fainter on posh crisps is a series of clay sculptures of female figures in voluminous dresses, standing on bags of crisps, seemingly frozen in the moment of fainting, in descent towards the ground.
Inclining is a central theme of the exhibition. It is even indirectly inscribed in the title of the exhibition, the eponymous Italics referring to text written in a cursive slanted typeface. In 2024, Wermers designed a font called Recliner (Bold) for her exhibition that year at the Jessica Silverman Gallery. When written in this typeface, each character leans ba…
