The Hole is pleased to present Once Twice, the first collaborative exhibition by Ry David Bradley and Hanna Hansdotter. Featuring Hansdotter’s blown glass sculptures and Bradley’s digital-born tapestries, Once Twice melds disparate media by the two artists, united by a shared investment in process and craft. 

 

The biomorphic figures in Bradley’s tapestries aren’t what they appear. Digitally conceived as grayscale works, they are physically woven with RGB colored thread, their vibrancy only visible in close-up. They bear the faces of real people, digitally distorted – registering the seamless, platform-bound fluctuation and masking of identity native to a world of FaceTune and biometric surveillance. Challenging the contemporary visibility fetish, Bradley’s tapestries withhold as much as they disclose, the relative qualities of their physical and digital existences rejecting the question of an “original” work altogether.

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Based in the Kingdom of Crystal in Sweden, a region renowned for its hand-blown glass since 1742, Hansdotter forges fleshy, baroque sculptures, frozen in alien morphologies. Drawing on traditional processes she learned in formal training as a glassblower, Hansdotter’s work foregrounds craft and luxurious attention to detail – all in service of bombastic results, culminating in her strange and sensual objects. Five of her sculptures complement Bradley’s tapestries in Once Twice, opening a space for unexpected interplay between newfound collaborators.