Sounder Ground
7 November - 1 December 2024
Art in Perpetuity Trust, 6 Creekside, Harold Wharf, Deptford, London, SE8 4SA.
Exhitbing artists: Cash Aspeek, Leila Galloway, Deborah Gardner, Asaki Kan, Chris Marshall, Laura White.
Curated by Chris Marshall and Cash Aspeek.
Baroque pasta, volcanic sourdough, jelly and ice cream, mattress dust, shoddy, clustering cables, cascading cassette tapes, exploding broom, clinical waste sacks.
‘Art Povera’ was a pivotal art movement in challenging the previous pre-conceptions of what sculpture is and how it is made. It could be said its importance laid the foundations much of the art we see now, and that nothing has equalled its radical and revolutionary ideas and artworks since. This exhibition takes much inspiration from this radical art movement.
This exhibition will bring together experimental sculpture and installations. Six artists will produce new, site-specific work, for the gallery at APT. Artworks with the focus on materials and stuff that challenges and surprises in its physicality and poetic existence. The artists share a desire for stripping back revealing the feral, the source, the nudge into existence. They work with materials that are difficult to control, materials that are often awkward to stabilise and resist being fixed.
Sonder Ground’s use of three materials was ignited by my mother gifting me a roll of stripy plastic bags used for clinical waste. She thought I would like the printed lines. I was drawn to their static electricity. A couple of days later she had a major stroke. In my studio I had been using the shrub, Broom, whose Gaelic Ogham name Ngetal, denotes the plant’s healing properties and magical powers. Both materials are used as tools for cleaning and contain sulphur. Whilst sulphur is a mineral essential for life, it is also noxious. Its misuse can have negative consequences on our bodies. I am using mustard powder as an alternative, to remind us of the need to care for our planet.
