- Venue
- Bond House Project Space
- Starts
- Friday, May 2, 2014
- Ends
- Friday, May 9, 2014
- Address
- ASC Goodwood Road, London SE14 6BL
- Location
- London
The path that runs across brings together work by three artists whose practices explore the binaries of nature/artifice; expression/control; and imagination/matter. For three months Cheeseman, Nettell and Wilberforce have engaged in a reciprocal creative process, responding to each other’s research and practice in a three-way dialogue focusing on the manipulation of nature within the urban environment. This has, in turn, informed the development of new works and the configuration of the gallery as a test bed, a controlled environment in which to identify common themes, structures and forms. Sequential photo-studies of concrete grids in a Modernist garden; a stop-motion animation of a sea buoy run aground; a projected film negative revealing the hexagonal tessellations of a city tree grate; and sculptures combining carved tree stumps with found plastic objects are arranged to create a new and playful landscape typified by the rhythmic patterns of grids and frames, intervals, fissures and spaces between. The project’s title adapts Louis Marin’s analogy of the Rue Traversière (the road that runs across) in his discussion of gardens’ unexpected, contradictory designs [Marin, L. (1992) Lectures traversières. Paris: Albin Michel], while reflecting the pathways that have opened up between and through the artists’ conversations.
