Intricacies of Support
2021
Intricacies of Support is a sculptural assemblage constructed out of shelves – devices that provide a surface for the storage or display of objects. Shelves are necessary in homes, art exhibitions, and working spaces, yet somehow feel secondary to the objects they support. This work is interested in the possibility of shelves – or things that can potentially function as shelves – taking centre stage, holding nothing but themselves: a shelf holding a shelf, holding yet another shelf. Made from vastly different materials, some solid and others precarious, the shelves interact and interlace in a variety of ways – holding, propping, hovering, leaning, resting, pushing against; expanding their rigid functionality into a multiplicity of relationships.
This work has been exhibited at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen as part of Heimspiel 2021.