Toby Ziegler — À propos — Slash Paris

The titles are not meant to pin down meaning in the work, but they all relate to memory, artifice, and the idea of remembering as a creative act. Paintings can be vessels full of ghosts: personal and collective phantoms, as well as those of the viewer; all the ghosts that creep in from the internet; the ghosts of paintings that came before, medieval, modernist and the ones I’ve made. There are conventions that lie dormant in paintings, and by dismantling the act and then putting it back together, perhaps it’s possible to invoke some bastard form to materialise in the gaps between things.

T. Ziegler, 2022

Toby Ziegler (*1972, London) lives and works in London. Ziegler’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international institutions such as the Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Weidingen (2022 and 2017); The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart (2018); The Freud Museum, London (2017); The Hepworth Wakefield (2014); Zabludowicz Collection, London (2010, travelled to The New Art Gallery Walsall; and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2007); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2005), among others. Toby Ziegler’s works are part of renowned collections including Arts Council England, London; The British Council, London; The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart; Tate, London; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London.