Preview Friday 27th May, 6-9pm
28th May - 2nd July, 2011

MOTINTERNATIONAL is pleased to present We Don’t Need To Need To Do This, a three person exhibition bringing together artists for whom printed matter and photography act as a stand in for sculpture. ‘The book’ operates as a portal for these artists, where form exists in a place between image and object, print and sculpture.

Drawing images from science fiction books, vintage magazines and the props of mysticism, Will Rogan interrogates the dilemma of time: its recollection, passage and suspension. Rogan’s photographs depict their given subject while simultaneously making reference to the process of their production
and their own status as photographic ‘objects’. Iris Touliatou works through drawings, collages and sculpture to question the utopian aspirations of modernism and the inherent theatricality of its architecture. Making reference to existing urban landscapes to create speculative abstractions of those yet
to be built, Touliatou re-constructs and re-activates her materials. Investigating the process of storytelling Zin Taylor draws on lost anecdotes from recent art history. Between quotatation and narrative Taylor’s prints and sculptures mark uncertain translations of text into form.

Will Rogan was born in 1975 in Illinois, USA. Rogan’s work has recently been shown at the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art; SFMoMA; the Berkeley Art Museum; BE-PART Platform voor Actuele Kunst, Waregem, Belgium; The Mercer Art Union, Toronto; the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and has had solo gallery exhibitions at Laurel Gitlen, New York; Altman Siegel, San Francisco, and Misako & Rosen, Tokyo. Rogan lives and works in Albany, California

Iris Touliatou was born in 1981 in Athens, Greece. In 2010, she received the Onassis Foundation Grant and won The Future of Europe Art Prize. In 2009, Touliatou was awarded the artist residency at Le Pavillon, Laboratoire de Création du Palais de Tokyo, Paris as well as at SAIR/ Artist in residency in Denmark. Touliatou has recently had solo exhibitions at DUVE Berlin, Berlin, and Palais de Tokyo, Paris as well as at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens in 2007, 2008 and 2010. Touliatou lives and works in Paris.

Zin Taylor was born in 1978 in Calgary, Canada and lives and works in Brussels. He has exhibited internationally with solo projects at Gallery Isabella Bartolozzi, Berlin; Établissements d’En Face, Brussels, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto; Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Recent solo exhibitions include; Maison des Arts of Malkoff Paris, 2010. Exhibtions in 2011 include Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels; Gallery Micky Scubert, Berlin (curated by Dieter Roelstraete); Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal and Kiosk Contemporary Art Space, Ghent.