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{A Collection for Aid&Abet}
2014
Collected found objects, helium balloons
A Collection for Aid&Abet comprises a series of small tableaux assembled in response to the impending demolition of the current project space. As such these arrangements are partly a ‘retrospective’ – a looking back at the past three years and some of the experiences that the building has played host to – whilst also an investigation into themes of nostalgia and commentary: an attempted summation of ‘so what was that all about?’. The majority of objects used have been selected from the remaindered ‘stuff’ in the building: the process of rummaging and salvaging having the emotional tugs of a house clearance. The objects themselves have been pushed and pulled in an attempt to make them behave as artworks, but their stubborness and reluctance to comply feels more like an end-of-show takedown where artwork is relieved of its art status and returned to objecthood as it is packed up and removed from its artistic context. This mix of reflection, demolition and dismantling forms the basis of the work; formal considerations and the use of humour are important too.
Exhibited at Aid&Abet, Cambridge, as part of Demolition, curated by the Aid&Abet associate artists
Collected found objects, helium balloons
A Collection for Aid&Abet comprises a series of small tableaux assembled in response to the impending demolition of the current project space. As such these arrangements are partly a ‘retrospective’ – a looking back at the past three years and some of the experiences that the building has played host to – whilst also an investigation into themes of nostalgia and commentary: an attempted summation of ‘so what was that all about?’. The majority of objects used have been selected from the remaindered ‘stuff’ in the building: the process of rummaging and salvaging having the emotional tugs of a house clearance. The objects themselves have been pushed and pulled in an attempt to make them behave as artworks, but their stubborness and reluctance to comply feels more like an end-of-show takedown where artwork is relieved of its art status and returned to objecthood as it is packed up and removed from its artistic context. This mix of reflection, demolition and dismantling forms the basis of the work; formal considerations and the use of humour are important too.
Exhibited at Aid&Abet, Cambridge, as part of Demolition, curated by the Aid&Abet associate artists