Beyond Depot
BEYOND DEPOT : cast modeling wax, stuffed crow, gravel and recording of windscreen wipers from a Leyland Bus, variable size, 2015.
Was exhibited at the end of my residency at LCB Depot in St Georges Cultural Quarter, the exhibition was part of The Summer Arts Trial, Leicester City Festival, 2015.
Beyond:
at or to the further side of;
happening or continuing after (a specified time or event);
having progressed or achieved more than (a specified stage or level);
to a degree or condition where a specified action is impossible;
apart from; except.
Depot:
a place for the storage of large quantities of equipment, food, or goods;
a place where buses, trains, or other vehicles are housed and maintained and from which they are dispatched for service;
a place where recruits are trained or other troops are assembled.
Responding to the brutalist architecture in the Lightbox- a semi-circular concrete construction with many 4 cm holes already drilled - past remnants of an unknown function - the installation has as its anchor a formal engagement with the space, emphasizing references and triggers for the viewer to experience notional action: travelling, placing, nipping, holding, resting, waiting, sweeping, wiping, co-existing, lasting, decaying.
Press release, 2015.
“My work is not really driven by narratives but the flow of ideas,” explained Leila...[and] aspect[s] of flux, of changing, of trying to capture moments. There’s another level to the work about surfaces and patterns..."
Fine Art lecturer takes over city venue as part of Leicester's Summer Arts Trail
