How do we know what games are being played?
How do we make the next move forward?
Artists:
Hermione Allsopp, Fabio Almeida, Ralph Anderson, Dominic Beattie, Gary Colclough, Ben Deakin, Tom Hackney, Mandy Hudson, Neal Rock, Ana Ruepp, Ismini Samanidou, Angela Smith, Diana Taylor, Kate Terry, Elly Thomas, Tess Williams, Carol Wyss and David Ben White.
Curated by Rosalind Davis
Collyer Bristow Gallery, Collyer Bristow LLP, 4 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4TF
Re-Assemble is an exhibition that looks at ideas and processes of structure against the particularly precarious and fractured current political backdrop. In the UK and beyond positions are being constantly remapped, with many seeking to exert control over shifting ground and chance possibilities and outcomes. In a state of uncertainty and without reliable information, what move do we make? How can we navigate, chart or reconstruct this faltering landscape?
Works by eighteen artists circulate around a range of themes, from disruption, translation and reconfiguration to systems, grids and game playing. Paintings, sculptures, textiles and photography physicalise elements of risk, the provisional, the fictional and the imagined. Objects, materials and places are taken apart and re-assembled to test methodologies and envision hybrid spaces. Thinking and making tread new paths through ambiguity.
Review on Wall Street International by Jillian Knipe
Re-Assemble with its word splicing hyphen emphasises an expectation that the artworks will encompass configurations done, undone and re-done. Though, like many of the works in this group exhibition, there is an essential contradiction which runs through the title. Assemble refers either to a group of people coming together which is temporary, else to the arrangement of componentry. If the latter is for a machine, there’s reasonable hope for the assembly to be more permanent, a direct opposite of the momentary mustering of citizens. The need or preference to “re” assemble then initiates the question of why. Was the original assembly broken? Obsolete? Do we have all the parts? Is this a necessity or a game?As part of law firm Collyer Bristow’s ongoing commitment to the arts, in-house curator Rosalind Davis has assembled multiple contributions from 18 artists whose work intentionally or accidentally reconfigures its constituent parts. This isn’t just academic, it’s personal. As Rosalind’s own collaborations with fellow artist Justin Hibbs reveal, she is particularly and heavily invested in how space can be both clearly and deceivingly bordered, walled, outlined and mirrored. Their resulting work which can be seen at Arthouse1 as part of Observation Rooms, highlights possibilities, pathways and dead ends as short-lived arrangements which, despite their calculated appearance, are actually subjective compositions, susceptible to constant re-assembly….read the full article here.
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Image top, Tom Hackney. Carousel= a selection of install images from the show courtesy of Michaela Nettell.
