- Venue
- The Toilet Gallery
- Starts
- Wednesday, June 23, 2010
- Ends
- Wednesday, July 7, 2010
- Address
- The Toilet Gallery, Nipper Alley, Kingston-Upon-Thames. KT1 1AD
- Location
- London
STRATA: Carl Gent and Helen Pradas-Page. Strata brings together two artists who investigate notions of geological accumulation and the various languages these natural processes can create. Carl Gent works directly with very specific rock dusts to discuss notions of Armageddon and Deep Space. Through geological research and correspondence with astronomical texts, the ages of various rocks are linked explicitly to the age of light reaching Earth from specific cosmic bodies. Gent then uses these materials to physically interact with these irrevocably distant bodies in a futile effort to leave the human position. The work of Helen Pradas-Page is a series of sculptures and surface reliefs evolving from the accruing of 3-dimensional units of bent, folded and twisted paper tubes to explore form and topographies, the kind that are constructed through a growing system of physical rules and complexities. Pradas-Page’s work can be seen as a metaphorical exploration of accumulation and fossilisation. The slow gradual build up of sediment over millennia creates the varied structure that makes up our global habitat. It is this incremental licence and the formal possibilities that lie within this rulebook that Pradas-Page is exploring.
