Borrowing Space, 2020, in response to Nick Collerson’s ‘With Love’ at Liverpool Street Gallery;
Borrowing Space is comprised of two photogrammetric renders; 3 dimensional digital objects acting as records of the un-noted, inside and outside the vacuum of Liverpool Street Gallery during Nick Collerson’s showing of ‘With Love’.
The gallery oft functions as a space of sterility. A vacuum in which artwork is lent the power to present itself unabated by the clutter of a lived-in world. Although these spaces may achieve a function of visual sterility, few preserve an actual physical sterility. Flying just below immediate observation exists a minutiae of detritus, litter and stains which evade a disruptive presence in a seemingly sterile environment. The un-noted inhabits space in just the same mode as the catalogued and collected. Both detritus and art exist as unfixed objects, holding space in temporal habitance of static environments. Both products of energy spent. Both holding the ability to communicate with space, with observers and with one another.
In response to Collerson’s alchemical reappraisals of the unconsidered; Borrowing Space intends to function as a conversation between detritus and art. Objects of intent and objects of neglect levelled to a position where talk between the two is encouraged.
