An Archive of Exorcisms
An Archive of Exorcisms by Lorenzo Tebano presents three years of searching for wonder amongst haunted forests and post-industrial wastelands that constitute this cursed isle.
About An Archive of Exorcisms
This exhibition deals with the fallout of modernity’s rampant march of “Progress” and the enclosure and separation of peoples from the land. The collection traverses time, space, and mediums. With an emphasis on the artist's life in Glasgow the exhibition presents a culmination of works including unearthly musical instruments, drawings and paintings, sculpture and bespoke furnishings, and multimedia recordings of site-specific collaborative performances. Dredged from the tortured landscape which bore them, these fragments are rendered as chaotic assemblages and social sculptures, wherein guests and accomplices are invited to quite literally inhabit these works and the wastelands for themselves.
This abundant collection of by-products forms a living archive of exorcisms. These exorcisms are enacted in ceremonies where site-specific instruments forged from the bones of the land itself are played as offerings to induce the voices of its past. The oscillating drones and groans produced through a collaboration with place immerse the haunted artist in meditation on the environment. In unearthing the trauma of the landscape and amplifying and working with its subjugated history, the mundanity of the chosen sites acquires majesty when animated once again through sonic vibrations. These exorcisms are performances and happenings that occur with or without audiences in the disenchanted hinterlands, consoling the ghosts that surround us as we seek collective commons in an alienating landscape where even peaceful forests and mountainsides are appropriated by capital.
Lorenzo Tebano is an artist and musician from Southampton via London, Copenhagen and Berlin. He now calls Glasgow home. His multidisciplinary practice incorporates sculpture and public-facing events. These works and happenings promote ideas of re-establishing commons in the city, through a practice of re-enchanting the everyday. Methods of improvisation feed into his visual art practice whereby unearthly instruments, contemporary talismans, and bespoke items of furniture are crafted from foraged materials found in Glasgow’s wastelands, riverbanks, and woodlands. Being in conversation with the land, his process is akin to a ritual exorcism where the trauma of the city's tortured ex-industrial landscape is excavated and brought to the surface.
Tebano is one half of the cathartic improv duo ENDING together with collaborator Martin Steuk. He is founder of the Autonomous Improvised Music Society (a horizontal network for artists of all abilities who engage with sound and improvisatory methodologies, facilitating a safe space levelling access to music every Tuesday night at McNeills Govanhill). He also occasionally runs art and music workshops for children and young people.
Prior to this, he has been active in the DIY art and music scene of Copenhagen co-founding the artist project space Whoa Now with the artist Mette Hammer Juhl as well as co-running the DIY music label Zone Collective with label partner DJ and producer Toby Ridler.
Tebano graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Art from Kingston University in 2010 and was briefly enrolled in the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Masters programme at UDK Berlin in 2018 and then the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2019.
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