Description/Abstract: |
This exhibition showcases nine artists whose practices involve the re-invention of meaning and function of objects, systems of work and spaces. Utilising drawing, sculpture and socially engaged practice, the works become potential projects growing out of the ruins of the current economic collapse. As banks, construction, manufacturing, art market and business decline, recession catapults us into a state of flux. The works become projects that deviate from profit and targets and are like small flickers of resistance. They evolve from this moment of chaos and could be both an antidote and irritant. The show places work within the narrative of a’workshop’, as a place in which experiments can be made and where utopian ideas can be realised, igniting our re-invention. In this context, the works themselves are in different stages of formation and include abandoned proposals and prototypes made potent now with their content, raw half formed experiments with enormous potential, to more resolved ideas. True to the notion of theworkshop as a narrative, Fine Art and Science students have been invited to make models and diagrams with the curator,these individual pieces are presented as a sprawling multiple artwork. The playful use of scale challenges the viewers perception, lingering as they do between actuality and fantasy, and touching upon new ideas to redefine the material world in this time. |
Other Contributors: |
Role | Name |
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Curator | Gregson, Andrea | Exhibitor | Dettmers, Silke | Exhibitor | Franks, Matt | Exhibitor | Gough, Stuart | Exhibitor | Henerson, Karen | Exhibitor | Leventon, Rosie | Exhibitor | Shaw, Becky | Exhibitor | Vivian, Paul | Exhibitor | Whittle, Micheal |
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