Public has announced the representation of Berlin and London based British artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. The artist will open a major new project and solo exhibition, commissioned and produced by Serpentine Arts Technologies, at Serpentine North this September.
Brathwaite-Shirley’s practice disrupts conventional forms of remembrance, utilizing sonic and gaming technologies that demand responsibility towards others, relying on the psychology of choice, audience-as-medium, and the ‘possibility space’ of online gaming. By entering Brathwaite-Shirley’s game, you agree to the artist’s terms and conditions, to play by her rules. Favoring a glitchy, low-fi VHS-style aesthetic inspired by a niche internet subgenre known as ‘analogue horror’, she works with rudimentary pre-rendered graphics, often utilizing early 1990s models known as ‘corridor games’. Narratives play out in long endless passages, where grass pulses, eyes flicker, and skies are filled with swirling patterns and typo-riddled text; these surfaces and textures become spaces of testimony, visual and rhythmic traces of the artist’s loved ones, who help construct the very architecture of her worlds.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (b. 1995, London) lives and works between Berlin and London. She/they has presented recent solo exhibitions at institutions such as LAS Foundation, Halle am Berghain, Berlin (2024); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2024); Studio Voltaire, London (2024); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2024); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2023); Villa Arson, Nice (2023); HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2023); FACT, Liverpool (2022); Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2022); Skänes konstförening, Malmö (2022); Arebyte Gallery, London (2021); QUAD, Derby (2021); Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2020). Her/their work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (2023); Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York (2023); Das Centre Pompidou, Metz (2023); Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2022); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2021); Les Urbaines, Lausanne (2019); and Barbican, London (2018). Her/their work has been the subject of screenings and performances at institutions including Tate Modern, London (2024, 2020); MoMA, New York (2023); DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2023); Serpentine, London (2022); Spike Island, Bristol (2022); and South London Gallery (2022).
