CAITLIN MASLEY
NEO HABITAT

4.10. – 23.10.2013.
Opening of the exhibition will be on October 4th 2013at 7 pm.

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Barrel Gallery
Trg žrtava fašizma 16
10000 Zagreb

Opening hours:
Wednesday – Friday 11 am – 7 pm
Saturday and Sunday 10 am – 6 pm
Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays.

Curator: Branka Benčić

After realization of the wall drawings from the series Marina City ( Marina City #6, galerija 01, Zagreb, 2006) Caitlin Masley returns to Zagreb again, but this time realizing a big site specific installation, architectural/sculptural object, from the series Neo Habitat, designed especially for the Barrel Gallery.
Neo Habitat presents  a series of hanging objects – mobiles – architectonic constructions of large formats, hand made of cut and assemblage / collage black poliuretan foam panels, which will fill in the space of the Barrel Gallery with its volume and complex compositions, creating complex spacial  hanging / floating structure. On a trail of the ideas of mobile architecture of Yona Friedman, based on a temporary, flexible constructions, aimed to the needs of the population, dynamics of the urban processes, related materials, performance and to the needs of the residential construction in a postwar area.
Caitlin Masley’s Neo Habitat presents visual researches of the organic growth, reconstructing different fragments of the architecture. Its volume overtakes the space of the gallery engaging the senses of the visitor. Detail is multiplied, fragments repeated as kaleidoscopic picture, while in front of our eyes  the familiar elements of architecture transform into an abstract construction which spreads in space as an explosion. (From the foreword, Branka Benčić).

Caitlin Masley, has an MFA from the University of Arizona and is currently pursuing a MS in Design and Urban Ecology at Parsons, New York City.. She has won several grants and fellowships, including an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Socrates Sculpture Park, a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship, Puffin Foundation Grant and Foundation for Contemporary Art (emergency grant) and the LMCC Swing Space Grant and Residency among others. Masley has been artist-in-residence in Austria, Germany, Quebec, Norway and Switzerland. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at MOMA/PS1, Center for Built Environment, Storefront for Art and Architecture. She has created site-specific solo exhibitions at McColl Center for Contemporary Art, Islip Museum, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art and Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art. Upcoming, Masley will install a new site-specific work at MOCA Jacksonville, Florida. Her work is included in the Pfizer Corporate Collection, Benaki Museum, Holt Renfrew, Progressive Corporate Collection and many Private Collections. Caitlin Masley is represented by Lu Magnus Gallery in New York. Currently, she lives and works in Brooklyn.