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The everyday
The poetics of the
everyday, an exhibition curated by Simone ten Hompel
3 November
- 13 January
2007
Simone ten Hompel, a Jerwood
Prize winner, is curating for flow a new exhibition as a
follow up to her critically acclaimed "Field of Silver"
show. The new exhibition, the everyday will feature seven
artists of different nationalities from Europe and the Far
East who all work in metal and nearly all of them work in
silver. The artists are: Wiebke Meurer, Cathy Miles,
Vladimir Böhm, David Clarke, Asato Kamiyama, Chien-Wei Chang
and Ji-Hyun Yoo.
Asato Kamiyama Ji-Hyun Yoo.
We are all experts in the
everyday. The exhibition will examine different cultural
responses to the use of silver and its role in our everyday
life. Is silver really too precious to be used for for our
daily rituals of eating, drinking and entertaining? Is it
only for Sunday best? The audience will be able to get a
glimpse of the development process and formulation of the
object taking place within the artist's imagination in
response to a poetic brief written by Linden Reilly, a
senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University.
Cathy Miles
Some extracts from Linden's
initial text give a flavour of things to come:
The poetic imagination gathers
snippets of experience. Mundane experiences, prosaic
experiences, routine or unusual, experience from any source
can put to use, built on and with. The spoon that you eat
with day after day, and day after day; that measures your
life in its daily round from the drawer, to the table, to
the bowl to the drawer; and sustains your life in the rhythm
of its journeys between the lip of the bowl and the lip of
the body.'
''Making is perhaps an extreme
form of entertainment, not in a trivial, trivialised sense,
but in the sense of a holding between.'
Vladimir Böhm Chien-Wei
Chang
The full essay written by Linden
Reilly is available on request.
Wiebke Meurer
David Clarke
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