71 is pleased to present an exhibition with works by Grace Anderson (b. 1991 in Melbourne, Australia) and Bruce Nauman (b. 1941 in Fort Wayne, USA).

Grace Anderson’s practice is primarily sculptural and concept-driven, informed by a deep and sustained engagement with painting, performance and experimental music. Working with the materials of everyday life - personal debris, bedside clutter, beauty products, party ephemera, fashion and other forms of domestic detritus - she treats these objects as carriers of desire, ritual, identity and time. Her work occupies a space between assemblage, autofiction and a deliberately informal material language, where the seemingly incidental becomes a means of constructing meaning. Anderson is particularly interested in the visual codes of femininity and the ways in which they shape identity. Her practice moves between pared-back sculptural gestures, emotionally charged assemblages and paintings that translate the physical and psychological experience of encountering objects into two dimensions.

Bruce Nauman is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the relationship between language, the body, perception and psychological experience. Through everyday actions, gestures and words, he challenges conventional ideas of art and examines how meaning and identity are shaped. Since the late 1960s, his work has challenged traditional definitions of art by transforming everyday actions, gestures and materials into thought-provoking situations. Language plays a central role in his practice, which often questions how meaning is constructed and how individuals relate to society.