Collapse

01.May.08 - 01.Jun.08
during exhibitions or by appt

AUGUST art
2 Baldwin Terrace
London N1 7RU
020 7354 0677
info@augustart.co.uk
www.augustart.co.uk
Tube Old Street, Angel, Shoreditch / Hoxton

Aeneas Wilder’s installation consists of 4000+ units of wood stacked to build a large curved wall that fi lls the Gallery. Its mass fi lls even the corners of our vision and subsumes our proprioception. It will bisect the Gallery, blocking our movements, though we’ll be able to see the areas we cannot go.

The wall is free-standing and self-balancing, so despite its scale there is the tension of its possible collapse. Indeed, the artist, in a performance, will kick its base and destroy the installation. What was once a monument becomes a random distribution of sticks.

The work sets out to ask, will we remember the wall as it once was, or as its fi nal manifestation? Do we mourn or venerate? Is it the Hoover dam we think of, or Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ruined Ozymandias?