Exhibition
Provisional Conditions
5 Oct 2016 – 27 Nov 2016
Event times
Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 22 Newport Street
- Vauxhall
- London
- SE11 6AY
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 360, 77, 344
- Waterloo, Lambeth North, Vauxhall
Material Conjectures and Emily Motto are innovative, early career artists working from different philosophical perspectives and linked here through the shared modernist working practice of subverting everyday materials to a new purpose, creating fresh sculptural entities.
About
Whilst Motto works in an intuitive, sensual tradition with texture and colour as guiding principles, Material Conjectures work with a pre-determined concept rooted in political concerns – the ‘superadjacency’[1] of displacement architectures is their theme for this exhibition.
Showing in the same venue, in two vast spaces with diverse architectural features, two distinct environments emerge within these built spaces. For this project Material Conjectures have invited Gary Woodley to respond to their construction Abandoned Crisis Treatment Facility with his distinctive approach to articulating architectural space.
[1] Superadjacency is the outcome of contradictory forces and violent pressures acting upon and against each other within the rigid framework of architectonic structures… ‘Superadjacency is inclusive rather than exclusive… Superadjacency can exist between distant elements.’
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