Liza Grobler has recently returned from a 3 month residency in Norway.

Almost a Valentine is the title of her second solo exhibition that opens at the Chelsea Gallery on 12 February 2002.

The exhibition will consist of both two- and three- dimensional artworks made from a wide variety of mainly mass-produced materials, such as pipe cleaners, polystyrene chips and plastic bags.

Every small artwork will function as a sub-unit of the exhibition and the focus would therefore be on the interaction between works rather than on individual pieces.

The title relates to the date of the opening night. The theme of the exhibition will be focussing on the possibility of love or the strive towards an euphoric state that might never be obtained.

The exhibition aims at recreating a space that imitates and embraces the wide range of low-cost consumer products that flood the market at this time of the year (the colours pink and red, silk roses and inflatable hearts) while at the same time it questions our plastic-coated views on love.

The work contains strong elements of humour and play, and draws especially on the well-known symbol of the heart that tend to resemble love (and life) without actually participating more than any other organ, in the game called love.