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Jennifer Taylor, Untitled Installation, exhibited at Flowers East in the exhibition ’Says the Junk in the Yard’, 2007. Courtesy: the Artist and David Roberts.

Jennifer Taylor, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007, creates elaborate interiors that at times exude a baroque sensuality and at others resemble Heath Robinson contraptions, out of control kitchens or ‘mad professor’ laboratories. She makes use of different viewing spaces and apertures to challenge her medium, and plays with the language of sculpture by using familiar domestic objects such as mincers, juicers and vacuum cleaner hoses. Within these installations, objects transcend their original functions as they are transformed into absurd instruments with bizarre or dark tasks to perform – small interactions between objects become excessive and almost farcical. Her current installation at Wyer Gallery, London transforms the entire gallery space into a chaotic and claustrophobic environment where ordinary logic is lost as the viewer is transported towards an extended reality of dreams and to the realm of fiction where everything is familiar yet somehow distorted and removed. The exhibition continues until 15...

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