Arden + White is pleased to present a two-person exhibition bringing together Anke Blaue and Clementine Maconachie, whose practices converge through a shared sensitivity to minimalism, material, and dimensional perception. Working across textile and metal, the artists shape form through pressure, texture, and light to explore the relationship between surface and depth.
Blaue’s compositions unfold through restrained chromatic fields, where antique linen operates simultaneously as medium and subject. Organized in groupings of color and scale, the works emphasize intimacy and spatial presence, their surfaces absorbing and releasing light in nuanced gradients. Guided by softened edges and linear transitions, Blaue constructs a language of subdued movement. Her minimalism is durational, with color deepening, receding, and gathering at the periphery, suggesting an internal architecture shaped by time and visual perception.
Maconachie’s sculptural works engage material through gentle resistance. By cold-bending metal into attenuated, organic forms, she disrupts its expected rigidity, allowing it to appear supple and weightless. The sculpture’s edges are fluid, as though the material has been coaxed rather than forced into shape, gesturing an imperfection and imbalance that produces forms which exist between rigid structure and collapse. The physical tension that they carry is continually undone by the suggestion of pliancy.
In dialogue, the works articulate a shared study into how materials can be made to exceed their own properties. Blaue’s textiles hold depth within the illusion of flatness, while Maconachie’s metal occupies space with an unexpected softness, proposing a reorientation of minimalism that privileges subtlety, tactile sensitivity, and the instability of form. Rather than emphasizing reduction alone, the exhibition considers minimalism as a site of transformation: where surface becomes dimensional, weight becomes negotiable, and perception remains in flux.
