19/07/24 - 21/07/24, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow
A ticket stub, a nail, a cigarette packet – a discarded object. All objects we held in our hands but not in our hearts. It is the shared attraction to such from which this exhibition came forth.
Thus, a place in my heart exists as a collaborative exhibition brought forth by Glasgow based artist, Lilian Evans, and curator, Aliya Prichard-Casey.
Embracing the context of the Pipe Factory and its history of dereliction, this project draws upon the catalyst for such: the humble rolled cigarette, and the primary reason for the downfall of claypipe production worldwide, and subsequently, the cause of the Pipe Factory’s dereliction.
This exhibition exploring the relationships we hold with our material surroundings, confronts our tendency to consume, use, and discard whilst reframing the object and its potentiality. Framed through Moments Of Encounter, this exhibition shall act as a marker of a point in time, a position in place thereby unveiling the interconnection, the traces, between all people and things.
Utilising attachment and its polar, abandonment, to centre the consumerist tendency to use and discard, this exhibition highlights the human predilection to assign face values to objects thus cementing the brevity of their existence as objects of value. This exhibition, in its repurposing of discarded materials, brings forth the materiality embedded within these objects and finds value for them as art. It is once they become works of art, that they are destroyed. The auto-destructive nature of this show touches upon the ‘after-lives’ of these objects emphasising the dynamism of materials, evolving, deteriorating, nothing fixed, nothing static, always in flux.
These objects hold a place in our hearts. Let them hold a place in yours.
