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Laboratory
Laboratory
Jerwood Space, London
29 July – 30 August
In advance of my visit to the Jerwood Space, part way through our conversation, 'Laboratory's curator Sarah Williams revealed that she was speaking from inside a sculpture. She expressed excitement that the artist, following provocation, had produced a work different to his regular output. Standing in the gallery I could clearly grasp the sense that I was looking at the sculpture that I had been remotely linked to earlier that day, further confirmed by the fact that inside it was plausibly accommodating for human habitation. Had I not had that conversation my thoughts about what I was looking at may have been different. Peaking like an island, the tarpaulin's edges were drawn upwards from the floor creating a loosely pyramidal form. I could not determine its exact internal structure but I enjoyed its flirtation as something built and something wrapped. Under the direction of curator Sarah Williams 'Laboratory' is an exhibition of the production and process of an exhibition, through to the final show itself. Melding artistic practice with curatorial thinking, press relations, events organisation, marketing, exhibition documentation, catalogue production and critical review...
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