CAN WE EVER KNOW THE MEANING OF THESE OBJECTS?
Curated by Kevin Quigley & Sarah Sparkes
8th to 22nd July 2021
A group exhibition exploring the relationship between made objects and found artefacts.
Dates
Exhibition Dates
8th – 22nd July 2021
Private View
8th July 2021, 6-9pm
Artists
Eleanor Bowen
Sean Dower
Fieldnotes
Bruce Gilchrist
Caroline Gregory
Bjorn Hatleskog
Luke Jordan
Seulgi Kang
Miyuki Kasahara
Yev Kazannik
Marq Kearey
Calum F Kerr
London Clay Workers Union (Helen Carr, Sarah Christie, Duncan Hooson and Annette Welch, Diane Eagles, Alison Cooke, Danuta Solowiej, Stephanie Buttle, Jo Pearl, Raewyn Harrison, Jane Millar, Elizabeth Meyer)
Lisa McKendrick
Pol McLernon
Sean McLusky
Kevin Quigley
Victoria Rance
James Roseveare
Martin Sexton
Sarah Sparkes
Ian Thompson
Inga Tillere
Marianne Walker
Phill Wilson-Perkin
Mary Yacoob
Information
‘Archaeologists excavate sites and objects from the past and then write about them; while artists create, and invent objects or situations in the present.’ Sarah Scott, World Archaeology Vol. 38, (Taylor & Francis:2018)
‘Without the Allure of Objects – we are trapped amidst the swirling black noise of any given sensual space.’ Graham Harman, Object-Orientated ontology: A New Theory of Everything (Pelican Books: 2018).
Archaeologists subject artefacts to hierarchical categories – Artists, by re-making and re-imagining objects, activate apocryphal histories, raise the objects’ status and bring new perception.
In this group exhibition artists are exploring this imagined intent – to generate new relations between objects and their associations with the world around them.
It is hard to resist the ‘allure’ of a mysterious object: a found object, an out of place artefact, an art object, an anthropological object, an archaeological find.
In Harmans’ notion of ‘ Allure’ an object holds a seductive power beyond its qualities. Every ‘thing’ can contain an essence of this mystery through imagined intentionality.
Through both the mystery and the allure of the object we make a quantum leap – from one possible reality into the next and as we examine this reality closer, through ontological study, we question and place what things can exist or can be said to exist and how such entities can be grouped accordingly to their similarities and differences?
This is what we do naturally when we logically make groups or diagrammatic associations –
And we try to find meaning…
