Ibghy & Lemmens

In their collaborative practice, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens heighten the allusive and deconstructive features of language to interrogate knowledge-formations, institutional contexts, and social and political entanglements. Their work is characterized by a minimalist approach to the form and construction of the art object and a use of materials as a way to make ideas visible. Recent projects explore how desire and belief influence economic discourse and practices, sustain current economies, but also carry the potential for inciting new forms of doing economy.

Their work has been exhibited at the 10th Sharjah Biennial, UAE, Labor K1, Berlin, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, VU, Quebec City, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, the European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, and Trafó, House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, among others. Their artistic projects and writings have been published in C-magazine, New Social Inquiry, and Pyramid Power. In 2011-2012, they will present solo exhibitions at Galleria Alkovi, Helsinki, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Monte Vista, Los Angeles, G Gallery, Toronto, and 221a, Vancouver.