Sunday, October 2, 2011

Gabriel Kuri - Before Contingency After the Fact - South London Gallery London


through November 27th 2011

In the SLG's main space and back garden, a series of 'hard' sculptures – large, uniformly painted metal shapes – refer to the language of statistics or graphic representations of data. By presenting sequences of related forms, each one embodying a slightly different relationship between positive and negative space, or with each one placed at a slightly different angle or tipped over on one side, Kuri exposes their potential to be perceived as abstract, symbolic and/or utilitarian. The human scale of the sculptures, for example, means that if placed at particular angles they could provide cover if someone were to lie beneath them.

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