@dependance_gallery is pleased to present House for a Sportswoman, an exhibition @lindersterling and @mmarrin_ . The title refers to a project designed by Marcel Breuer for the Berlin Bauausstellung in 1931; the House for a Sportsman combined a fitness club with a residence for a gymnastics teacher. The urbanist devotion to facilitate sports and wellness in the contemporary home, as displayed by House for a Sportsman, were true markers for avant-garde and progressiveness. In House for a Sportswoman, Linder and Megan Marrin refer to sports from a contemporary point of view, looking at topics such as glamour, consumption, the individual versus the group, and more. Linder uses record sleeves contemporary to her teenage years as the foundation of a new series of photomontages. The ‘stereo’ status proclaimed on many of the sleeves reflects the allure of the transition at that time from mono recordings to high fidelity technology incorporating a 180 degree stereo field within the home. On the sleeves, the artist chose to work with images of footballers and sports cars, thinking about the aspirational, idealistic aspects of masculinity, as well as acknowledging the speed of the cars synching with the speed of the athletes, what has now developed to relation between speed and power, with diverse references to culture, to arts, and to a lifestyle of a certain ideal. Megan Marrin’s paintings for the exhibition are made of two sets. Both are based on her personal experience with and research into the development of early Twentieth century fitness movements. One set consists of three views of a piece of classical Pilates equipment, the Ped-o-pul. The second set of paintings are shaped canvases in the forms of plastic mannequin torsos. These new sets finish the artist’s series of ‘strengthening the body’ works, after previous series focused on the body at rest, the body in pain, and the body in life and death. 1) Linder: Use no army now, 2022 / photomontage 2) Megan Marrin: Trapeze 2, 2022 / oil on canvas on styrofoam Photo @alice.pallot