Rob Kennedy. acts of dis play

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Across an installation featuring a new video work, weekly performances, detritus, found objects, philosophical texts and a selection of contemporary and historical artworks – including work by Merlin James, Conor Kelly, Julian Kildear, Tony Maas and David Teniers the Younger – Glasgow-based artist Rob Kennedy establishes an environment in which objects and spaces continually traverse different perceptual frameworks. At times being art, at times serving a function and at times provoking certain types of contemplation, the objects establish a series of correspondences and trajectories that resist being reducible to a single purpose. 

Following a series of participatory events* the approach and layout of the exhibition is informed by moments of exchange, unexpected dialogues and spontaneous relationships. Developing over the last two years with people from across the University community and beyond, acts of dis play has been opened up and transformed by the work of many other people whilst in turn bringing those people into different orbits and types of activity. Close collaboration between the artist and Talbot Rice Gallery has generated a mutual sense of change and discovery, leading both the artist and institution to work in new kinds of ways.