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collaborative  
   
with Yasmin Vardi
2020 - ongoing

surface tension
2024

guests

   badly-behaved 
   well-mannered
2023-24

bootleg vampire
2023

stoker
2023

*pinch* to zoom
   duo show with Elli Antoniou
2023

sisters
2022

exo series
2022

get_lump
    with Anna Clegg and 
    Clementine Bruno
2022

i <3 your output
    with Anna Clegg, Elliot Jeffries
    and David Musgrave
2022

proxy
    with Yasmin Vardi
2022

bambi woods presents
2021

tape 2046  
2020-2024





     



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surface tension
Des Bains
2024

unresolved (the call is coming from inside the house)
custom aluminium frame (4:3), engraved glass, two digital prints on bible paper, bubble wrap, archive extract, feather.

& (crush filter)
custom aluminium frame (4:3), engraved glass, digital print on restoration paper, letter on bible paper (taped), archive extract.

spring 2024.  

photographs by show pickle



1. surface tension, install view
2. long shot (benedetta)
pencil on bible paper, pins.
3. unresolved (the call is coming from inside the house), detail

photographs by show pickle



guests (badly behaved)
GIF series 
2024


guests (badly behaved)
series of 5.
winter 2024.  





well-mannered guests
GIF movie 
2023


at TICK TACK cinema: Antwerp, Belgium
summer 2023.

photos courtesy of the gallery. 





well-mannered guests
GIF movie, extract



bootleg vampire
HD video, 14’00” 
2023


bootleg vampire - stills
screened at ASP: Katowice, Poland.
summer 2o23.

cinematography: Yasmin Vardi




bootleg vampire - extract
screened at ASP: Katowice, Poland.
summer 2o23

cinematography: Yasmin Vardi.





full film available on request.



stoker
video, 4’32”
2023



at Studio Ghost: Tokyo, Japan. 
summer 2023.

photograph by ayako mino.





stoker - extract
at Studio Ghost: Tokyo, Japan.
summer 2023.



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duo show with Elli Antoniou 
2023

triple axel 
B.V. & E.A mild steel structure, mild steel plates, love letter stickers, magnets, work lamps, and photographs. 
collaboration with Elli Antoniou at Generation & Display: London, U.K. Curated by Amélie Mckee.
summer 2023. 

photographs by Jonanna Wierzbicka








SenseOfRelief [NeutralAngels], 2023, E.A. and mixtape4, 2023 B.V.
digital print, pasted. 
at Generation & Display: London, U.K. 
summer 2023.  


unreliable bodies (phenomena 1981), 2023 B.V.
aluminium vent cover, disassembled GIF. 
at Generation & Display: London, U.K. 
summer 2023. 

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* pinch * to zoom presents an ongoing collaboration between Beatrice Vorster and Elli Antoniou, who have been long-time friends and studio companions.The nature of their working process makes it virtually impossible for them to be in the studio simultaneously: B’s sound-based practise requires attentive listening, whilst E’s process is supported by a loud
compressor. So, B would work in the mornings, and E would work at night. Both of their works are infused with each other’s delayed presence; a series of imagined love letters between friends and collaborators. Their collaborative process involves gentle mark making, with their imagery resurfacing in each other’s pieces through digital extrusion and
glitchy repetitions. The works embrace decay, the slow erosion of material flux. Both are concerned with
transformation of matter: presenting the parallel of adolescent metamorphosis with the shifting status of metal. The central modular system, triple axel (2023), draws together these fictions and presents a site. The gallery space is reimagined as a public square - the site of encounters, of spending time, of loitering, of making your mark and reading traces of others. It is where teenagers spend time outside of domestic or school spaces. Where metals rust and glass scratches. These
sediments of public spaces presented as layers washing over each other revealing varying stages of decay and accumulation as they fall in and out of synch.

Private view 16th September 6:30 - 9:30pm
Exhibition 17th September - 1st October 2023
Special Event 30th September 6 - 9pm

Works by Beatrice Vorster & Elli Antoniou
Curated by Amélie Mckee
Supported by The Elephant Trust

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exhibition text by Amélie Mckee.
https://extra.resonance.fm/episodes/worthwhile-unions-10-love-letters-2023-10-02




sisters
video, 7’32” 
2022

sisters - stills.
at Des Bains, spring 2024
& SET Woolwich, winter 2022.




sisters - extract.
at Des Bains, spring 2024
& SET Woolwich, winter 2022.






exo_series
pencil on paper 
2022

 

ex0_01 & exo_04
at SET Woolwich.
winter 2022.











get_lump
collaboration with Anna Clegg and Clementine Bruno 
2022





get_lump
with Anna Clegg and Clementine Bruno
latex print on satin poster paper, folded, embossed metal, feather, fibre, t-pins.
at Nicoletti Contemporary: London, U.K.
spring 2022.

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photographs by Mark Blower.