Three Installations- Terence Gower

February 1 - March 15, 2025

It is with great pleasure that we announce Terence Gower’s first solo-exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, opening on Saturday, 1st of February 2025. This exhibition brings together three projects that each demonstrate a different process of form generation, in several different media, including sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and installation.

Free Association (2010 - ongoing) presents the viewer with a cloud of suspended, fragmentary shapes, laser-cut from 6 mm aluminium and coated with a variety of colored enamels. This work, centerpiece of Terence’s 2016 show at LABOR, is based on the epoynmous psychoanalitic technique, in which phrases, images, and memories are excavated from a patient’s unconcious. The shapes that make up the sculpture were likewise drawn from Gower’s unconcious, seemingly randomly, using automatic drawing, and those pen-and-gouache drawings were then used as templates for the mobile’s suspended forms.

Green in Tehran (2018 - ongoing) is a wall drawing and print series that employs woodblock, aquaint, silkscreen, letterpress, and digital techniques. The project is based on a research in the Victor Gruen papers at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC) and tells the story of Gruen’s invitation by the Shah of Iran to conceive a new urbanism scheme of Iran’s capital in the early 1960s. The work foregrounds the performative mark-making of Gruen the 1960s urbanist, who drew his schemes onto aerial photographs, resulting in geometrical compositions that were designed to actually shape the way we urban dwellers live in the cities we inhabit. These compelling geometric forms, interlacing in the wall mural like a complex Islamic ceramic composition, are all rendered using links and paints that contain pigments sourced at the Tehran Bazaar.

Human Industry (Escalator), 2025 is a suite of sculptures and works on paper based on the truncated form of a common escalator, an artefact of public and commercial sites that feature dense collections of humans on the move, such as train stations and shopping centers. The series emerged from observations during a day hike in Lower Austria in the summer of 2023, related in a short narrative that is shown adjacent to the works in the installation. Terence Gower’s most recent projects include the survey exhibition Terence Gower: Embassy at Power Plant, Toronto in 2024, presented in tandem with his installation Public Spirit at the National Gallery of Canada.

The exhibition is on view until March 15, 2025.