Opening Friday 20 February, 18-20.30
Screening 20:00
For Want Of brings together artists who explore the problematic and poetic use of systems and measurement. Whereas measurement often focuses on quantitative results, the artists instead choose a metaphysical approach to exploit the corporeal use of measuring apparatus as a vehicle for critique. Here, alternative tools are used to point out the futility, absurdity and impossibility of truly knowing the world around us; investigating rather through human relationships to the measurement of time, perspective, location and memory.
The exhibition is the fifth iteration of an international project conceived by Jim Hobbs and Patrick Adam Jones in London 2022. Here the selected artists’ work unfolds forms and applications of measurement by investigating relationships between individuals and built environments, both concrete and fictive, and how we measure or understand spaces that are in constant flux or renegotiation. Some suggest registrations of a place, space or situation, that is perhaps fleeting and dissolving through recollection, whereas others will open up concepts and perceptions that cannot be measured formally. There are envisioned futures and various realities, as well as the ideas in response to technological shifts, and storing unknowable quantities, digitally or physically.
Elisa Bergmann
Ludovica Carbotta
Lukas Danys
Stine Deja
Jim Hobbs
Patrick Adam Jones
Sarah McNulty
Sounds by Ojon & Steffen Levring
Text by Paola Paleari
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