NEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery announced that they are now representing Berlin-based artist Patricia Waller in the United States and Turkey. Well known for her colorful crocheted works that deliver serious messages about violence and abuse via a medium that is more commonly associated with comfort, Chilean-born Waller has made a decades-long career of responding to the growing acceptance of violence in the world as well as satirizing and playing with cultural mythologies and norms.

Confronting bloody realities with a vicious sense of irony, Waller creates handcrafted wool objects that play with well known symbols of innocence, causing us to reconsider how we deal with our fears and our ability to address or repress them. By subverting traditional uses of a familiar material, her bold and graphic work serves as a wake up call to re-examine a pervasive imbalance in our collective psyche. In other works, she applies her dark brand of humor to topics ranging from superheroes, fairy tales and cartoon characters to circus performers, magicians, and animal abuse.

Patricia Waller has been widely exhibited throughout Germany and also in China, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands and more recently here at C24 Gallery in last year’s group exhibition, Conflicted. She is represented in Europe by Galerie Deschler Berlin, and her work is currently on view through May 11, 2025 in the group exhibition, Superheroes at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, an international exhibition center spotlighting photography, pop and digital culture.

C24 Gallery will feature Waller’s work as part of their group exhibition at Contemporary Istanbul from October 23-27. They also look forward to her first solo exhibition at C24 Gallery opening on Thursday, November 14th, on view through January, 2025, with more details to follow.