Kerstin Brätsch's 'Full-Fall' at Giò Marconi, Milan

Kerstin Brätsch (Hamburg, 1979; lives in New York) presents 'Full-Fall' at Giò Marconi in Milan, on view until July 29, 2016. The exhibition deliberately disrupts conventional display methods, using large sheets held by magnets, messy electrical wires, and rusty iron cages as support structures. The works feature marbling—colored inks painted on water and printed on paper—producing abstract images and the face of Poli'ahu, the Hawaiian goddess of ice. Brätsch also worked with ancient stained glass in Zurich. In front of 'Forever Falling', agate, jasper, fuchsite, and ruby are arranged on the floor, described as the precipitate of votive tears for Pele, the fire goddess, merging liquid and transparent colors into a geological sense of marbling.