SoiL Thornton
The Rest
2 MAY until 21 JUN 2025
Opening – 2 MAY 2025, 6-9 pm
SoiL Thornton
The Rest, 2025
Galerie Neu, Berlin
REST noun
a. period of relaxing
a period of time in which you relax, do not do anything active, or sleep
b. remaining part/people/things
the other things, people, or parts that remain or that have not been mentioned
c. support
an object that supports the weight of something
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin.
Photos: Stefan Korte
SoiL Thornton works with and against language and meaning. Their grammar of deconstruction often plays with misunderstandings and ambiguities. The titles and techniques of the works, which often have a lyrical quality of their own, offer clues about their methodology.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin.
Photos: Stefan Korte
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin.
Photos: Stefan Korte
The exhibition invites the visitor to dive into a playful and multi sensorial experience in the linguistic ambiguities of the word “rest” and perhaps encounter on the way questions relating to productivity and othering.
SoiL Thornton (b. 1990, US) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Their practice crosses boundaries of media, ranging from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation and video. SoiL Thornton grapples with identity politics, diversity, productivity, systems of order, and regulative apparatuses.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin.
Photos: Stefan Korte
Recent solo exhibitions include: Simian, Copenhagen (upcoming, June 2025); “candidate screening methods”, Progetto, Lecce (2024); “Painting, the shorter of the longest”, Morán Morán, Los Angeles (2024); “Choosing Suitor”, Secession, Vienna (2023); “Decomposition Evaluation”, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld (2022) and “Moreover, does productivity know what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?”, Galerie Neu, Berlin (2021).
During Gallery Weekend Berlin, the artist will also take part of Rushes, a group exhibition at Fluentum, Berlin.
