Middlesex Presents
Middlesex Presents
Middlesex Presents

Anna Malicka: lint weaver

27-29 September 2024

Middlesex Presents Latvian artist Anna Malicka’s first UK solo presentation lint weaver, the second instalment in a 2024/2025 series showcasing artist experiments and work in progress at the gallery. Developed from a recent series of whiteworks using drawn thread open work and machine embroidery techniques, Malicka explores ornamentation in a new large-scale textile installation, dressing the gallery for the occasion, and a pencil mural emblazoning 'floral mom' handicraft aesthetics onto the gallery radiator. Asemic motifs in lint weaver draw attention to the subversive possibility of the decorative: a surface that can cover, mask or interrupt an object.

At the opening, composer, poet and multi-instrumentalist Petero Kalulé (petals), will play a live improvised set that is responsive to Malicka’s installation, experimenting with ornamentation in multiphonic cycles that focus the liberatory potential of repetition.

Anna Malicka (Riga, 1995) is a multimedia artist. Working across textiles, drawing, film and performance, Malicka layers scribbled abstraction, asemic writing, handicrafts and everyday aesthetics to construct imaginary spaces. Malicka graduated from the interdisciplinary department POST of the Art Academy of Latvia in 2023. To date she has presented her work in solo exhibitions sTiTcHeS of iTcHeS, TUR Telpa, Riga (2023) and Sodrēji, Bolderāja, Riga (2022); in duo exhibitions Armours (with Rikke Diemers at Collega, Copenhagen) and Stardoll Heaven (with Julie de Kezel at Komplot, Brussels), and in group exhibitions including Survival Kit 14, Riga (2023). Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Pūra Lāde (Dowry Chest) at Kim? Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga (2025). Malicka is a member of artist/ DJ collective PR0_Bi$TR0, creating a chain of music, visual and food art events with Karlina Marta Zvirbule and Elina Mekša. As winner of the Helen Scott-Lidgett Award 2023/2024 she is a current participant of the ACME Studios Early Career Award program in London.

Special thanks to the Embassy of Latvia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Anna Malicka: lint weaver

27-29 September 2024

Middlesex Presents Latvian artist Anna Malicka’s first UK solo presentation lint weaver, the second instalment in a 2024/2025 series showcasing artist experiments and work in progress at the gallery. Developed from a recent series of whiteworks using drawn thread open work and machine embroidery techniques, Malicka explores ornamentation in a new large-scale textile installation, dressing the gallery for the occasion, and a pencil mural emblazoning 'floral mom' handicraft aesthetics onto the gallery radiator. Asemic motifs in lint weaver draw attention to the subversive possibility of the decorative: a surface that can cover, mask or interrupt an object.

At the opening, composer, poet and multi-instrumentalist Petero Kalulé (petals), will play a live improvised set that is responsive to Malicka’s installation, experimenting with ornamentation in multiphonic cycles that focus the liberatory potential of repetition.

Anna Malicka (Riga, 1995) is a multimedia artist. Working across textiles, drawing, film and performance, Malicka layers scribbled abstraction, asemic writing, handicrafts and everyday aesthetics to construct imaginary spaces. Malicka graduated from the interdisciplinary department POST of the Art Academy of Latvia in 2023. To date she has presented her work in solo exhibitions sTiTcHeS of iTcHeS, TUR Telpa, Riga (2023) and Sodrēji, Bolderāja, Riga (2022); in duo exhibitions Armours (with Rikke Diemers at Collega, Copenhagen) and Stardoll Heaven (with Julie de Kezel at Komplot, Brussels), and in group exhibitions including Survival Kit 14, Riga (2023). Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Pūra Lāde (Dowry Chest) at Kim? Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga (2025). Malicka is a member of artist/ DJ collective PR0_Bi$TR0, creating a chain of music, visual and food art events with Karlina Marta Zvirbule and Elina Mekša. As winner of the Helen Scott-Lidgett Award 2023/2024 she is a current participant of the ACME Studios Early Career Award program in London.