- Venue
- Wyer Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, February 14, 2008
- Ends
- Saturday, March 15, 2008
- Address
- 191 St. Johns' Hill London SW11 1TH
- Location
- London
Throughout January, Jennifer Taylor has been in full time residence at the gallery assembling her most ambitious installation to date. Wyer Gallery has been transformed into a chaotic labyrinth, crammed with a mass of intertwining pipes, mechanisms and found domestic objects. Taylor creates elaborate interiors that at times exude a baroque sensuality and at others resemble Heath Robinson contraptions, out of control kitchens or 'mad professor' laboratories. Investigating the visual world around us, she uses an ever-expanding array of materials that it would be impossible to catalogue. She makes use of different viewing spaces and apertures to challenge her medium and plays with the language of sculpture by using familiar domestic objects, such as mincers, juicers, vacuum cleaner hoses or washing machine extractors. Within her installations, these objects transcend their original functions as they are transformed into absurd instruments with bizarre or dark tasks to perform and small interactions between objects become excessive and almost farcical. Jennifer Taylor graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007. She has participated in group shows internationally including the prestigious Jen Rêve , at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris and, more recently, in Says the Junk in the Yard at Flowers East, London. This will be her first solo show.
