TOIL & TROUBLE: HOW WE FIND OUT WHO WE ARE
APT Gallery 04–20 November 2022
An exhibition of work by Ali Darke, Lucy Renton and Sue Withers, disrupted by Eric Great-Rex
Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.
Lynn Margulis, Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (1986)
If humans are to survive, they must participate in their own evolution. This means discovering, more than defining, ourselves through our engagement with others.
This show proposed a methodology based in conscious collective evolution, rather than self-determination, using conversation and rearrangement as an ethos for an exhibition that changed across its duration and became a catalyst for exploring how control of meaning is shared and surrendered in a group dynamic.
HOLD ME (click image to expand)
blanket, clothes hangers, net curtain, upholstery stuffing, salt
HOLD ME (details)
DON’T LOOK AT ME
wooden cabinet, blankets
THE UGLY ONE
blanket, linen, upholstery stuffing, salt, net curtain, chain, metal hook,
BALLS: FRINGE, FRILL and FLOUNCE
blanket, fringing, eiderdown and blanket silk edging
DISRUPTIONS by ERIC GREAT-REX
LOOK AT ME and TOUCH ME
ceramics
