Animal

For Animal, Borondo turned Londonewcastle Project Space in Shoreditch into a sequence of eight environments. Presented from 5 to 26 February 2015, the exhibition asked how closely contemporary life remains connected to animal instinct, despite the technologies and conventions through which we attempt to distance ourselves from it.

Figurative painting extended into moving images, sculpture and installation. Video and painting animations were developed with Carmen Maín, while sculptural collaborations with Edoardo Tresoldi and Despina Charitonidi brought other materials and spatial possibilities into the exhibition. A four-metre haystack disrupted the expectations of a conventional gallery interior, making physical experience central to the encounter with the work.

Rom Levy’s co-curation and exhibition production through RexRomae helped realise a presentation conceived as a journey through spaces, rather than a sequence of objects on walls. Borondo’s bodies and gestures became a means of considering mortality, vulnerability and the distance between what people feel and how they are expected to behave.