“When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.”
— Hermann Hesse

This exhibition explores and seeks to affirm the significance of transition; the spaces in-between; the journey rather than the destination. It is interested in the state in which something can be dynamic in its stillness, the idea of motion in non-direction.

David Spero; Pikisaarentie 10A, Oulu Playing with motifs of balance, tipping-points and the liminal, the works in the show offer up moments of becoming. David Spero’s ‘Ball photographs’ encapsulate elements of stillness and equilibrium, whereby a single gesture transforms an otherwise inanimate landscape into a dynamic one, whilst Stewart Cliff’s unassuming paintings offer a moment between looking and recognition with the artist’s simple rendering of everyday domestic objects into the semi-abstract. In Kirk Palmer’s video installation ‘Murmur’, the forested hills of Kyoto sway with the wind gathering up to a crescendo, whilst Yukako Shibata’s neat sculptures constructed from pared-down materials and a pure form of painting offer a meditative experience. For this exhibition, Henry Krokatsis has made a new work in response to the concept of the show. Each of the works in this exhibition contains within it an element of the monumental in its quietness:

“There is a size to scale not to do with its actual physical size, its measurement in feet and inches – but connected with vision. A carving might be several times over life-size and yet be petty and small in feeling – and a small carving only a few inches in height can give the feeling of huge size and monumental grandeur, because the vision behind it is big.”
— Henry Moore

This is an exhibition about potentiality, and allowing the space for it.

Artists
Stewart Cliff: Bloomberg Contemporaries 2008; winner of the Richard Ford Art Award 2005
Henry Krokatsis: Reconstruction at Sudeley Castle 2008; You’ll never know at Hayward Gallery 2007; Showcase at South London Gallery 2004
Kirk Palmer: Natural Wonders at Baibakov Arts Projects 2009; solo show at Paradise Row 2007; Anticipation at David Roberts Art Foundation 2007;
Yukako Shibata: Solo show Luminescence at Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation; winner of the Calyon Investment Bank Art Award and the Davis Langton Award 2005
David Spero: Artists Residency at British School of Rome 2009; Solo show at Photographers Gallery, 2005; The Art of the Garden at Tate Britain 2004

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

This exhibition has been generously sponsored by:

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