death of an object

group show curated by beth archard                       

sion hill gallery, bath                        
jan 2022                                           

As we move towards an Immaterial future - Are we nostalgic for the Material, for what we might lose? 

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Is this necessary in order for us to understand how to move forwards? 

Our nostalgia to the material past> Must we act this out until we are done with it?

 

Death of an Object explores the resonances between objects and extracts information through the non-human in the hope to generate new ideas about our inevitability.

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Through mechanisms of;

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ritual craft folklore memory

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The exhibition aimed to create discourse around; transference of memory, commemoration, mechanisms of value, collections, transcendence (of taste), value in the idea and what does it mean to be an object.