- Venue
- Parfitt Gallery
- Starts
- Monday, January 31, 2011
- Ends
- Friday, February 11, 2011
- Address
- Croydon Higher Education College Barclay Road Croydon CR9 1DX
- Location
- London
The Parfitt Gallery is pleased to present A Matter of Speculation, an exhibition by the artists’ group FOLD. The work in this show is a series of collaborative print and book works generated through process and exchange. Fundamental to this process is the creation of rules as a framework for experimentation. The rules may be pre-determined by way of a theme or formula, or made mutable by the intervention of the artists as the work progresses. In some instances the rules are arbitrarily chosen, but more often, they are informed by, and in response to the artists’ own practice. Working collaboratively, and to rule, demands engagement with new or unfamiliar ways of working. It may also challenge notions of authorship, as in the project 5 x 5 (2004). In this project, the work was hung in clusters that related to the rules by which the work was generated. As the groupings were untitled, the viewer was invited to speculate as to which work linked to each rule and therefore, possibly to each artist thus highlighting the fact that the work was that of the group rather than any one individual.
