the new Towner art center in Eastbourne (uk)

Towner art center, debut exhibition. These images are from the
first floor gallery. Don't have any of the artist's names (sorry),
though the title of the show is "Lost Horizons".
above: hand driers like the ones typically found in wc's. Speakers
mounted above each one turn on when the drier is activated,
playing recorded conversations apparently taken from
interviews with people on the streets of London. One of
these the interview turned into freestyle rapping ( a good
way to answer questions).





work for a living turns into work or a living


plexi display holding plaster casts of socks,
many of them child-size










guardian review

Kenji Fujita

Saw this show at Samson Projects when I was last in Boston,
now that I'm here again for a few weeks was reminded of it.

"The title, Debris of Life and Mind, was taken from a Wallace Stevens poem.
I wanted the conversation between painting and sculpture to take a different turn.
I had done this earlier by examining the convention of wall-based work and turning
the assumptions that we have about the wall into a question: if something is going
to exist on the wall, how does this happen? I wanted to reflect more on the work’s
physical placement in an architectural setting and how that placement in space
determines meaning. I also wanted to play with things that have a certain weight
and that cause pressure. The original idea was to make these works freestanding,
but I soon realized that the bases would overwhelm the pieces. This led me to take
one side of the base, a two-foot square piece of plywood, and use it to prop the piece
against the wall. A plywood support and a compressed sphere coated with plaster
cloth combine to meet the back of the piece against the wall, creating support that
is both functional and sculptural. It’s still a conversation about painting and
sculpture, but the conversation is now taking place in an architectural space."
(from SP website)


It's always pretty amazing to think about how much territory is still open for
exploration, just taking, for instance, how the floor meets the wall, -even after
Tuttle's, McCracken's, Serra's and innumberable others' forays into the question.