KIRA FREIJE

Forgetting and Unforgetting, 2017, steel, aluminium, rubber, glass orb, light, 58 x 39 x 39cm

Despite the Tides She Foiled the Waves and Came to be the Last, 2018

steel, cast aluminium, velvet, felt, light, coolant tank from Ford,Dimensions variable

Never Did We Find The World, 2017, steel, blown glass, light, 134 x 68 x 65cm

Limpet Crusader, 2017 steel, fur, blown glass, light, 121 x 48 x 18cm

Holy Woman, 2016 steel, cast aluminium, wool, neoprene, silk, 88 x 78 x 65cm

Install view: A Rapid Succession of Noises That You Confuse For Danger, 2016, Royal Academy Schools Show

Install view: A Rapid Succession of Noises That You Confuse For Danger, 2016, Royal Academy Schools Show

Left: Conversation, 2016, steel, 167 x 189 x 55cm. Right: Argument, 2016, steel, wig, dimensions variable

We Strike a Match At The Very Same Time To Signal Our Own Unique Unity, 2016, steel, silkscreen on stainless steel, 86 x 217 x 80cm

She Came In and Never Left, One Step From Death, A Meteorite Without Fire, 2016, steel, silkscreen on steel, silk, lights, 150 x 150 x 175cm

Standing Woman Arms Folded, 2015 steel, 230 x 105 x 31cm

Die Searching, 2016, steel, silkscreen on stainless steel, tin, hand dyed cotton, polo shirt sleeve, fur, dimensions variable.

Fallen Woman, 2016, steel, stainless steel, motor, fabric, 253 x 36 x 48cm

Hearing No Steps Besides Her Own, She Faced the Cold and Melting Skin, 2016

steel, silkscreen on stainless steel, cast aluminium, silk, 170 x 60 x 88cm

Detail: Hearing No Steps Besides Her Own, She Faced the Cold and Melting Skin

Left: Ovule, 2017, steel, cast aluminium, Japanese silk, pvc, 165 x 66 x 70cm. Right: Fugitive, 2017, steel, cast aluminium, cotton, wool, alpaca, 170 x 48 x 56cm

Install view: The Dark Away, Recent Activity, Birmingham, UK, 2017

The Greater Control, 2017 steel, 134 x 45 x 67cm

Friend, My Friend, I Love You No More, 2016 steel, silk, wig, 73 x 130 x 54cm

Saviour, 2016 steel, stainless steel, cast aluminium, wool, cotton mesh, fur, 162 x 71 x 80cm

Detail: Saviour

The Unbeliever, 2016 steel, cast aluminium, antique silk, wool, blown glass flame, light, 182 x 69 x 94cm

Detail: The Unbeliever

Detail: The Unbeliever

KIRA FREIJE b. 1985, London, UK Lives and works in London, UK.

www.kirafreije.com kirafreije@me.com

Education: 2013-16 Royal Academy Schools, London 2008-11 Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford

Residency’s & Awards:

The Elephant Trust Royal Academy of Arts permanent collection. Chelsea Arts Club Trust Special Project Award, London Advanced Course in Visual Arts (visiting Professor Matt Mullican), Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy Red Mansion Residency, Beijing, China Pirye Prize, University of Oxford

The Violence of an Imagined Dusk, 12 Mackintosh Lane, London, UK

Dead Heat, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig, Germany (group show) The Sleeping Procession, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, UK (group show) No Place to Spit, SET project space, London, UK (group show) The Dark Away, Recent Activity, Birmingham, UK (solo) Walled Gardens in an Insane Eden, Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy (group show)

God’s Finger, Kinman Gallery, London, UK (group show) Our Tongues are The Replaceable Filaments (curated by Stella Bottai), Occidental Temporary, Paris, France (solo presentation) A Rose Is Without a ‘Why’. It Blooms Because It Blooms, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK (group show) A Rapid Succession of Noises That You Confuse For Danger, RA Schools Show, Royal Academy, London, UK (solo presentation)

All About My Mother (curated and participated in for International Women’s Day), Royal Academy of Art, London, UK (group show) Chimp Cracks Nut (To What Extent Is It Asking A Question?), Kennington Residency, London, UK (group show)

Suzy Culinski and Friends, Fanta Spazio, Milan, Italy (group show) Yesterday Night, Rowhill Mansions, London, UK (group show) Testing Tropes, Kestle Barton, Cornwall, UK (group show) Premiums Interim Projects, Royal Academy, London, UK (group show

Corso Aperto, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy (group show) Greenhorn, Tintype, London, UK (solo) Red Mansion Art Prize, Burlington Gardens, London, UK (group show)

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