Rosario Aninat and Simon Shim-Sutcliffe are a Chilean/Canadian collaborative practice that fuses sculptures with immersive installations. The duo is currently based between Paris and Frankfurt am Main having both met while studying at the Städelschule under Willem de Rooij and Hassan Khan. Material forms and an imploding infrastructural logic characterise their sculptural and site specific installation work. 

The bodily landscape coexists with natural and urban landscapes, with the artists building upon their shared experience of how monumental infrastructure shapes our contemporary world. They examine how the ruins of modernity are evident in the socio-material remnants; of oil fields and pipelines, mega highways, canals and sewers, and an ever growing pile of rubble. In a disquieting kind of fragility, the installations ensure that viewers are ultimately affected by its energy.

Upcoming exhibitions will be at Etta, Dusseldorf (2023), Recent exhibition include  ‘Come Hell or High Water’, Mutter, Amsterdam (2022), ‘Bones’, fffriedrich, Frankfurt (2021),’ And Amasia’, Jo-Anne, Frankfurt (2021). Recent group exhibitions include: ‘The Window and the Frame’, Towards, Toronto (2022), ‘Digital Dadaism’, Tor Art Space, Frankfurt (2021), ‘Prism Shift’, The Embassy, Brussels (2022); ‘Gross Floor Area’, Frankfurt (2022).They have collectively been awarded grants by the Canada Council for the Arts – Concept to Realization (2022), and the Kulturamt Frankfurt Grant (2021/2).