Install shot:
Install shot; left Emma Papworth 'Ideal Unit II', centre James Lomax 'It all Unravels (STILL/LIFE', Right Amba Sayal-Bennett 'BARB'
'Department of Modern Planning', concrete 2020
Ideal Unit II, Concrete, resin, 2022
- Left, Emma Papworth 'Department of Modern Planning', Right Tim Ellis 'Sky Chart'
Monument Relic III - Concrete, masonry paint 2021
Left, Tim Ellis 'Spinning Plates', Right Emma Papworth 'Monument Relic'
2020 AD, concrete, 2020
Photos by Noah De Costa
Press Release:
FOLD is pleased to present Modern Relics a group show of artists working
predominantly in sculpture. The work serves as imaginary artefacts, scavenged
and excavated from contemporary culture and urban environments. Elements
of classical architecture, modern cityscape, geometry and archaeological finds
have been reformulated in order to question preconceived ideas relating to
architecture, material, and the art historic canon.
The work on show references the use of modular form, traced back to
industrial production and the repetitious procedures of Modernism. This
idea is touched upon in Rosalind Kraus’ essay Part Object Part Sculpture
when she discusses the holistic nature of modern sculpture as being born out
of classical archaeology, ‘the unearthing of sculptural fragments of previous
whole bodies’.
Concrete and artificial building materials have become symbolic of urban life.
The materials used present their unyielding surfaces denying their material
essence or age which in some ways neglect the dimension of time. It is
interesting to consider these in relation to ancient artefacts, made from stone
and natural materials that express their age as well as the story of their origins
and history of human use.
The exhibition demonstrates multiple directions of sculpture, it imagines the
modern artefacts of our times, scavenged and excavated from contemporary
culture and urban environments – a reformulation of the discarded remains of
our modern culture.
Press Release:
FOLD is pleased to present Modern Relics a group show of artists working
predominantly in sculpture. The work serves as imaginary artefacts, scavenged
and excavated from contemporary culture and urban environments. Elements
of classical architecture, modern cityscape, geometry and archaeological finds
have been reformulated in order to question preconceived ideas relating to
architecture, material, and the art historic canon.
The work on show references the use of modular form, traced back to
industrial production and the repetitious procedures of Modernism. This
idea is touched upon in Rosalind Kraus’ essay Part Object Part Sculpture
when she discusses the holistic nature of modern sculpture as being born out
of classical archaeology, ‘the unearthing of sculptural fragments of previous
whole bodies’.
Concrete and artificial building materials have become symbolic of urban life.
The materials used present their unyielding surfaces denying their material
essence or age which in some ways neglect the dimension of time. It is
interesting to consider these in relation to ancient artefacts, made from stone
and natural materials that express their age as well as the story of their origins
and history of human use.
The exhibition demonstrates multiple directions of sculpture, it imagines the
modern artefacts of our times, scavenged and excavated from contemporary
culture and urban environments – a reformulation of the discarded remains of
our modern culture.