Waves Complete 14 (09.08.23) for windows instal

Is a publication’s context is ever finalised? As multiplied and distributed objects they are inherently ongoing. These books and pieces make us aware of their original contexts. The stacks of books are there to be taken away and the city that shines is even lifting from the wall a little, like it’s attempting to escape and bury itself under the CCDU blueprint. The exhibition itself feels transitionary. It draws out the notion of once it’s shown it’s finished – especially true for much (often deliberately temporary) work shown in art spaces such as The Physics Room. When is something complete (or exhausted)? Beyond Exhausted never truly answers that proposition but makes a few suggestions for the viewer. When is something complete (or exhausted)?Īlongside curator Sophie Davis, the artists question the life of an artwork, or publication. Both parts of the exhibition use the production of printed matter to test the effects of time, authorship and archiving. The exhibition features re-printed, and re-presented, printed matter with books that you can take ( The Silver Bulletins) or purchase ( Re-Print # 1, 2, 3). Dunedin-based designer Matthew Galloway’s work is in the main room with publishing initiative 3-ply & Melbourne-based artist Caitlin Patane's work around the corner in what The Physics Room usually uses as the AV space. For Beyond Exhausted, the gallery space has been divided.

The book form doesn't require the physical space of the gallery and it is at this point that the publication as art object perhaps runs into contention.īeyond Exhausted is a exhibition with work from Matthew Galloway, 3-ply and Caitlin Patane currently on display at The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Unlike traditional fine art mediums such as painting and sculpture where the audience stands back to look, the reader of a publication must open it and spend time with its content. As objects they travel and disseminate a message. Publications are containers of information.

Cameron Ralston talks publications, archiving and exhaustion about the design-centric exhibition at Ōtautahi’s The Physics Room.

Waves Complete 14 (09.08.23) for windows instal