Objecthood

The tradition of making by hand indicates a visceral awareness of the limits of the body – how weight and form relate to the size of a limb, the look of a truncated torso, or a defeated latex egg carton. Cast from life, the objects coax us from the comfort of routine into a newly imagined world of things. As long as objects fulfil their role, the past is able to confirm the present: invention and creativity are best left to the authority of cultural direction, thus representing life as a matter of repetition and not of invention, to prevent us hurtling towards the unknown.

Subversive and craft-y, their ‘by hand’ quality displaces them from the private space of the domestic into a space of alterity in the hopes of drawing the viewer’s attention to the ways one can be influenced by habituated expectations of the objects featured here, and to the mechanics of such representation.