Urs Fischer

Flea Circus

This catalogue is published on the occasion of Urs Fischer's exhibition Flea Circus (7 October - 18 November 2023) at Sadie Coles HQ Bury Street. Featured are his small format paintings, coated with exposure emulsion and layered with photographic images. The source images are snapshots of the box-under-the-bed kind, memories of family ancestry and personal biography, which morph into unexpected hybrids visually synonymous with the ghostly spiritual apparitions of Victorian photography. Alongside these memory paintings, the catalogue also contains Fischer's small scale cast sculptures that challenge physical logic either in construction, materiality or display.  Repeatedly using a cat as subject, the artist’s spirit animus, the sculptures embody a playful and hypnotic charm.