“This exhibition presents eight contemporary artists whose works offer vantage points on a world in perpetual crisis. Rather than representing specific political events, or taking singular positions, each artist in this exhibition explores broader conditions of domination and conflict, as well as horizons for survival.
Here is a Gale Warning will feature works by Pia Arke, Justin Caguiat, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Tomashi Jackson, Tarek Lakhrissi, Anne Tallentire, and Cecilia Vicuña.
Exhibition curated by Dr Amy Tobin, Curator, Contemporary Programmes, Kettle’s Yard.”
“…in Look Over 4 – a newly-commissioned floor drawing made for this exhibition – Tallentire has drawn the floorplan of an apartment onto the gallery floor in tape. The lines cut across the area, traversing the space and paying no heed to walls or doors. As Fite-Wassilak has noted of another of Tallentire’s floor drawings: ‘We do not get to experience architectural plans in this way, to-scale but flattened, both within and above at the same time’.[i] Our objective view is distorted, as we are invited to imagine a spatial overlay: apartment within art gallery, apartment alongside the historic Kettle’s Yard house, the home of Jim and Helen Ede.”
…The sculptures of the Interspacings series, for instance, sit directly on the floor. Composed of a now-outmoded insulation material called Ecoscreed, stacked on rolls of tape, the model-constructions at once seem to imagine grand buildings and balance precariously. The tape alludes to some ad-hoc fix, while the insulation, usually concealed underneath floors, seems oddly exposed. Others have noted how Tallentire’s sculptures call to mind materials in a building yard, and as such a sense of ongoing process and potential. But the forms that make up Interspacings, like all of Tallentire’s work, are anything but casual. The shape and size of each panel corresponds with the dimensions of prison cells and other institutional sites of confinement. The works lay out a space for constricted living where freedom is denied. Interspacings then alludes not only to an in-between material, but an in-between existence, lives on pause and cast out of view.” (Here is a Gale Warning, Publication, Amy Tobin)
