At this year’s Art Düsseldorf, Galerie Noah Klink is pleased to present a duo presentation featuring the artists Alison Yip and Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann.

In the booth, a new sculpture by Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann from his Prey and Protagonist series will be presented, which consists of a repurposed outdated robotic cat toy sitting on top of a ceramic snake. The two animals relate to each other in many different layers; as a predator and a prey, as a self-made object and a mass-produced one, as something resembling its natural kind and something very obviously human-made. These two worlds colliding results in a tension that is rather ambiguous. The potential danger that stems from the hierarchies of the represented animals gives way to a rather harmonic, romantic relationship due to how they have been re-made. The original differences and connotations of the two animals aside, they find themselves in total hospitality in their imitation states.

Alongside the sculpture, Alison Yip showcases the seemingly incidental household clutter of her everyday life in her most recent still-life paintings, both through depiction and the integration of found materials. Receipts, to-do lists, vitamins, fast snacks, loose change and charging cables make up a banal portrait of transaction and labour, wellness and beauty. Together they form compositions as indistinct as they are intimate. An intentional mixture of materials that are meant to degrade or obscure the paint over time are used: From packing cellophane to a murky, ash-coloured concoction composed of several ingredients ranging from anti-wrinkle cream to crushed Lorazepam. A reminder of time, mortality and taxes in paint.