“Anne Tallentire’s Plan (…) is an exhibition that builds on the artist’s ongoing concerns with precariousness and contingency in relation to the problematics of space and social agency. Tallentire’s approach is built on flux, mobility, observation and chance. She creates sculptural installations or spatial drawings by dismantling, re-figuring and re-ordering particular materials and systems, relating to a specific location, situation or social construction. Taking as her starting point the Terrassenhaussiedlung – an innovative residential complex in Graz – Tallentire engages in a meditation on structural detail. She explores dimensionality and mapping by using everyday building materials to transpose one physical space onto another. In representing abstractions of living and shared space, Tallentire questions the conditions that determine, regulate and shape patterns in daily life. Conceived especially for the galleries of the Grazer Kunstverein, and working from existing living spaces and architectural plans, Tallentire explores the embodiment of space through a process of abstract material drawing, governed by a carefully constructed set of rules. Tallentire creates sculptural installations or spatial drawings by dismantling, re-figuring and re-ordering particular materials and systems, relating to a specific location, situation or social construction. The new works that make up the exhibition Plan (…) each build on Tallentire’s ongoing concerns with precariousness and contingency in relation to the problematics of space and social agency. Tallentire’s work often animates the dynamic between the specific and the generic and the consistent rhythm of people trying to find agency within that set of invisible constraints. Her approach is built on flux, mobility, observation and chance. She explores human embodiment and evidence of decisions through material means, thereby revealing a kind of invisible knowledge. In representing abstractions of living and shared space, Tallentire questions the conditions that determine, regulate and shape patterns in daily life.”
