Showbox #9 - Jake Kelly and Donald Schenkel

Foundation MESH, Rotterdam NL

17.01.2020 - 29.02.2020

For MESH’s Show Box #9 Jake Kelly and Donald Schenkel created an installation of networked string and a reflective mural. In this process both artists contributed towards each other’s individual practices via persistent challenges aimed at encouraging experimentation. Through the collaboration they transformed Kelly’s two-dimensional constructions into a room sized installation, using the entirety of the space as its frame. Simultaneously they pushed Schenkel’s oil painted objects into a mural that is highly pigmented and glossy, thus exploring a new surface.

Photography by Roza Schous