SoiL Thornton
The Rest

2 MAY until 7 JUN 2025
Opening – 2 MAY 2025, 6-9 pm

SoiL Thornton’s practice crosses boundaries of media, ranging from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation and video. SoiL Thornton grapples with identity politics, diversity, systems of order, and regulative apparatuses. Instead of toying with the cultivation of individualism that prevails on social media and conceiving their own persona and biography as capital to be valorized, they take an interest in the prerequisites and rules of various systems, including those of the art world. These (external) orders serve as “neutral” aids for creative decisions—to be followed (or not)—while also enabling the artist-figure to disappear behind this structural setting.

SoiL Thornton (b. 1990, US) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: candidate screening methods, Progetto, Lecce (2024); Painting, the shorter of the longest, Morán Morán, Los Angeles (2024); Choosing Suitor, Secession, Vienna (2023); Decomposition Evaluation, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld (2022) and Moreover, does productivity know what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?, Galerie Neu, Berlin (2021).

During Gallery Weekend Berlin, SoiL Thornton will also take part of Rushes, a group exhibition at Fluentum, Berlin.