Exhibition
Recurve
26 Oct 2017 – 12 Nov 2017
Event times
Open thurs and Friday (other times by appointment)
Cost of entry
free
Address
- Arch 11 and 12
- Bohemia Place
- London
England - E8 1DU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 30, 38, 242, 276
- Hackney Central
- Hackney Central
Recurve is an attempt at reacting to the architecture of the Sluice project space, the rawness of the space and the in-between nature of railway arches as cultural spaces of varying modes of cultural and economic production.
About
Recurve is centred around a broken off chunk of re-curved seawall. An object that sits along the coast to provide a barrier between the land and sea. Here the fragment of wall has been repurposed as a skate-ramp where collective intimate mark making have made the object individual and primal.
The work sits in the space torn from its functionality. Its second life as a ramp explores the crossovers of recreation on land to sea and back again. The interconnectedness of materials and energies, its second life, its repurposing. This work is a way of exploring ideas of borders and movement across oceans and the flux of elemental materials.
In addition, a series of posters, entitled ‘exist’ depicts an image of a Scottish surfer who was swept out to sea for 2 days. Rescued, the only obvious (to those who brave the cold water in the winters) detail of his near death ordeal was a wetsuit hood shaped sunburn.
The water cooler, the scaffolding outside the office building, the gym... are all referenced by sculptural and wall based works. Each exploring a sense of the public/private space divisions within the city, the distancing of edge from the centre.
