We are delighted to present Revenant at carlier | gebauer, the first solo exhibition by Australian artist Jessica Rankin, who lives in New York. Rankin’s wall pieces create compositions of words, colour and shapes on a gauze-like material (organza), opening up a distinct artistic stratum set between drawing and writing. 

Rankin’s works appear to form translations of diverse fields that are generally clearly distinguished from each other. Her formats evoke those of landscape and history painting, whilst her motifs combine structures from the world of nature and concrete poetry, and the clear black lines of her letter-images cut through the pieces’ translucent surfaces. 

Young British artist Sara Barker takes the frame as her point of departure in approaching drawing. She creates sculptures that cut positions into the space. Her fragile constructions, composed of newspapers, aluminium and other metals, create three-dimensional drawings, which produce new spatial proportions and generate thresholds.