'Conceptual art' I guess, but unusually elegant and lucid both aesthetically/design-wise and in its balance between surface and deeper (nested, referential, implicit, viewer-produced) meaning.
Macarons in the customised flavours of Foie Gras, burning libraries and Evian mineral water prepared at the behest of the artist.
"Ampersand" (2012) is the centrepiece - you sit in an Eames chair and view a series of objects each placed on a plain white plinth as they rotate one after another behind a square window a couple of metres away. On a side table beside you, a printed and bound book - a catalogue of sorts - which elaborates on each of the, it turns out, 66 in all with short descriptions and more extended explanations of sorts as to what, why, how, and in revealing so much serve equally to highlight how much remains unsaid.[*]
A circular convex security mirror with protective visor intended for outdoor use, manufactured in Japan, viewed from behind.
In the far room, very top right corner, "Porthole to Culturefield Revisited" (2010), including a Miles Davis song playing softly:
Which recalled "Two hundred and sixty eight degrees below every kind of zero" (2014), which looks like a black helium-filled balloon that has reached the ceiling of an earlier room but is, in fact, a fibreglass facsimile.
A stack of fifty-four toilet rolls, six each of black, red, green, blue, fuchsia, orange, yellow, purple and brown produced by the Portuguese company Renova.
On two adjoining walls, "It's a Hang! (The things you make they mock you, the things you make they mimic you)" and "The things you make they mock you, the things you make they mimic you (It's a Hang!)", 2012, collectively what seems to be an almost complete, riddling, choose your own adventure series with a series of framed facing pages arranged in a series...the 'almost' being because there's one missing, and also the narrative text is missing, leaving only the choices, instructions and illustrations.
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[*] A friendly ACCA person opened up a back wall to show me how it works (at least on the mechanical level - a custom-built conveyor belt, the objects going slowly round each in turn past the viewing window.
Macarons in the customised flavours of Foie Gras, burning libraries and Evian mineral water prepared at the behest of the artist.
"Ampersand" (2012) is the centrepiece - you sit in an Eames chair and view a series of objects each placed on a plain white plinth as they rotate one after another behind a square window a couple of metres away. On a side table beside you, a printed and bound book - a catalogue of sorts - which elaborates on each of the, it turns out, 66 in all with short descriptions and more extended explanations of sorts as to what, why, how, and in revealing so much serve equally to highlight how much remains unsaid.[*]
A circular convex security mirror with protective visor intended for outdoor use, manufactured in Japan, viewed from behind.
In the far room, very top right corner, "Porthole to Culturefield Revisited" (2010), including a Miles Davis song playing softly:
Which recalled "Two hundred and sixty eight degrees below every kind of zero" (2014), which looks like a black helium-filled balloon that has reached the ceiling of an earlier room but is, in fact, a fibreglass facsimile.
A stack of fifty-four toilet rolls, six each of black, red, green, blue, fuchsia, orange, yellow, purple and brown produced by the Portuguese company Renova.
On two adjoining walls, "It's a Hang! (The things you make they mock you, the things you make they mimic you)" and "The things you make they mock you, the things you make they mimic you (It's a Hang!)", 2012, collectively what seems to be an almost complete, riddling, choose your own adventure series with a series of framed facing pages arranged in a series...the 'almost' being because there's one missing, and also the narrative text is missing, leaving only the choices, instructions and illustrations.
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[*] A friendly ACCA person opened up a back wall to show me how it works (at least on the mechanical level - a custom-built conveyor belt, the objects going slowly round each in turn past the viewing window.
