Space In Between is delighted to present Soft Matter – a solo exhibition of new work by Brazilian artist Adriano Amaral, and his first show with the gallery.

Adriano Amaral’s work encompasses an examination of the nature of things – the stuff of the world; it’s substance, value, materiality and mutability. Blurring the boundaries between object and space; composition and dispersion; painting and sculpture, Amaral creates site-specific installations, responding to the spatial and architectural elements of the exhibition space or gallery.

For Soft Matter, Amaral’s works sit in and around the gallery, adapting and reconstructing certain elements and features already present. Seeking to express both physical and symbolic associations between combinations of materials these new works include durational pieces in mould, which will develop and change over the course of the exhibition - highlighting the unpredictable mutations and transformations that can occur over time.

Through a use of raw materials and detritus of our recent past - uncluding construction waste and rubble – the works in Soft Matter explore the tension between culture and nature, addressing the fragility and instability of our time.

Soft Matter includes a commissioned text by writer and curator Kiki Mazzucchelli, which will form part of an accompanying publication.

Adriano Amaral was born in 1982 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. He is currently in the final year of his MA at the Royal College of Art. Recent exhibitions include A Sense of Things at Zabludowicz Collection and Open Cube (curated by Adriano Pedrosa) at White Cube, Masons Yard (both 2013). He has also exhibited extensively throughout Brazil, most recently with a solo show, Embaixo da Terra o Céu de Novo, at Galeria Transversal, São Paulo (2012).