Event detail
For its fifth exhibition Supplement presents a new work by Rob Lye. For The Hand You Have Been Dealt Lye has explored the workings of an artist led gallery space. Lye's practice involves the use of non-linear narratives, he is interested in the stunting or fragmentation of the act of art making.
Lye's proposal for the show involved building a second gallery space behind the original gallery and then offering the show back to the curators of Supplement. Lye's exhibition becomes a mirror reflecting the curator's decisions and making them central to the exhibition. In blurring boundaries between roles Lye makes the curators overt collaborators in the work. The Hand You Have Been Dealt exposes the mechanics of exhibition making.
In line with the challenge of Lye's proposal Supplement chose to refuse to make a complete show, instead staging a series of conversations with the artist and using this as a basis for their response. The end result is a show suspended between two positions, it becomes a collaboration in which meaning is generated through the interaction of its various elements.
The second gallery space behind the original is the artist's edition, in an edition of 1.
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