00:00 My name is Susanne Wielmetter. I own the Susanne Wielmetter Los Angeles Project Gallery.
00:05 The gallery is in Los Angeles and I mostly show artists from LA,
00:10 sometimes also European artists.
00:15 So this artist, her name is Jane South and she's originally from London, lives in Brooklyn
00:20 and I've done a project and very recently a solo show with her.
00:26 And so the work that you see here is made of paper.
00:30 It's a kind of archival, very thin cardboard paper. It's all cut by hand.
00:37 And it's more stable than it looks.
00:42 Each element is constructed similar to a kind of heavy-duty industrial steel container.
00:53 And of course this is the kind of material that the work mimics, but then it's made of paper.
01:01 So that's the kind of contrast there.
01:04 And for instance, even the hooks, the little paper hooks that you see, they're made of paper.
01:12 And so the material is first painted with an acrylic paint and then she draws on top of the paint.
01:20 So you can see there's a very elaborate drawing technique.
01:25 And then the spaces in between are cut out by hand.
01:28 So everything is handmade. She doesn't have any assistants. It's quite labor-intensive.
01:36 And so the way this work is arranged is compared to other pieces that she's done.
01:42 It's a little bit spread out. It has its own rhythm.
01:48 And then of course the shadows, the way the shadows play on the wall, is a kind of important element of the work.
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