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Saudade 01/158: A Solo Exhibition of Contemporary Art at SC Gallery Bilbao

David Oliver transforms the gallery space into a surreal domestic environment filled with mixed media installations.

Experience Saudade 01/158, the intimate solo project by David Oliver, also known as Grip Face. Hosted at SC Gallery Bilbao, this exhibition reconfigures the space into a domestic environment showcasing deformed tapestries, canvases, and sculptures. The project marks a deep merge of the artist's everyday life with his signature iconography, developed in collaboration with Jordi Pallarès and Ana Barriga.

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Exhibition summary

SAUDADE 01/158 is the second solo exhibition by David Oliver, known as Grip Face, at SC Gallery. The artist transforms the exhibition space into a perverse domestic environment, showcasing a diverse range of works including tapestries, sculptures, and collaborative pieces.

Curatorial context

In SAUDADE 01/158, David Oliver, also known as Grip Face, presents his most intimate project to date, marking his second solo exhibition at SC Gallery. The artist reconfigures the gallery space into an immersive, perverse domestic environment, inviting visitors to interact with a variety of elements including deformed tapestries, canvases, intervened walls, and sculptures. This exhibition serves as the first entry in an ambitious trilogy of projects planned between 2021 and 2022. Developing his artistic practice further, Oliver continues to evolve his signature iconography—masks, walls, and themes of human waste—that have been central to his work since his previous exhibitions at the gallery. The project, realized with the curatorial collaboration of Jordi Pallarès, highlights a moment where the artist’s work merges deeply with his everyday life. Through this distinctive staging, Oliver creates a private, connected room of his own that remains both hidden and revealing, pushing the boundaries of traditional gallery presentation.

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For further information or catalogue inquiries, visitors are invited to contact SC Gallery directly via the contact details provided on their website. No specific booking requirements for entry are mentioned on the exhibition page.

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Venue
SC Gallery
Current status
Completed
Exhibition schedule
Oct 15, 2021 – Dec 2, 2021
Artist line / attribution
The exhibition features works by David Oliver, also known as Grip Face, with curatorial collaboration from Jordi Pallarès and a collaborative contribution by artist Ana Barriga.
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