The exhibition by Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) is now followed by two solo exhibitions by Bri Williams and Elliot Reed. Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) was given carte blanche from the institution in inviting both artists. The works of Bri Williams and Elliot Reed are being presented in Switzerland for the first time.

Bri Williams (*1993, lives and works in Los Angeles) creates sculptures and installations from found objects, often with a personal connection to specific things and their history. These are reworked in a process using soap as material until they appear encased within it. This shift blurs the contours of the objects, giving them a strange, even eerie aura. The soap is used allegorically, to contain and examine past traumas, but also functions as a spiritual cleansing. Williams’s work goes beyond familial connections to address collective physical and psychological memories and identity structures. Many of the works in Angel Abra were created on site in Glarus.

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