WOOD, PLASTER, AND LEAD DO NOT CONDUCT ELECTRICITY 

For the fourth show in its programme Fold Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition of sculptural works from Alex Robbins: WOOD, PLASTER AND LEAD DO NOT CONDUCT ELECTRICITY

Alex Robbins was born in Northern California in 1978 - he now lives and works in London. In 2006 he received an MFA from Goldsmiths College. Since graduating he has participated in shows in the UK and abroad.

"As the art object moves from totem to scapegoat and back again, and back again, doubt gains momentum, seeking the path of least resistance.”

Robbins’ work stems from the notion of negative space used in drawing: on the page, negative space can be used economically as a descriptive device, while off the page, it gains "a damning freedom, spatially limitless and potentially frivolous".

In tracing printable mask designs culled from cyberspace onto lead, assembling blocks of plaster to form a dilapidated vehicle - and carving fingers from cedar, Robbins' dead-pan techniques transform materials to imply negative space in addition to emphasising their material properties. "Neither innocuous vacuum nor distilled ether, the negative spaces exist as prepositions - above, below, within, without, amidst, before, since". Acting as conduits, these spaces engage doubt as a definitive material.