As it is, Kate Fahey, Lizzie Munn and Timo Kube

About

The past echoes into the future, its traces haunt our present. ‘As it is’ considers metaphors and representations of subjective experiences of time – its fleeting nature, passing, colliding or yet to come. The exhibition title ‘As it is’ links to the Japanese philosophy of arugamama, meaning accepting situations for how they are.

Included in the exhibition are works that suggest in-between, ephemeral or metaphysical states, preservation, and deterioration. Through sequential, gradual, or what could be described as alchemical processes, the artists ruminate on time as ethereal, elusive but inevitable. We are invited to slow down and consider the latent energies in the works, revealing the transformative potential and agency of materials.

Kate Fahey works with installation, sculpture and sound, and is interested in ways of meaning-making that are not reliant upon scientific logic. Through a practice that spans painting, printmaking and installation, Lizzie Munn adopts analogue processes which distance the hand, whilst embodying the physical gesture of their making. Timo Kube critically looks at the conditions of human perception and knowledge formation, as the most direct instruments for encountering and constituting a world to locate himself.

Through this collaboration, Commonage Projects and No Show Space, aim to highlight affinities in their respective programmes and to celebrate the experimental and collaborative spirit of project spaces. It also offers visitors an opportunity to view interconnected approaches in the artists’ practices by presenting their work in both venues.

On the last day of the show, 2nd November at 12pm, please join the artists for an informal conversation at both spaces.