- Venue
- David Dale Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, May 28, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, June 19, 2011
- Address
- David Dale Gallery & Studios 71-73 Brook Street Bridgeton Glasgow G40 2AB
- Location
- Scotland
David Dale Gallery & Studios are pleased to present Container and Contents, an exhibition of new work by Naomi Bell, Dominic Samsworth & Joanna Waclawski. Container and Contents brings Bell, Samsworth and Waclawski together under the auspices of common, cultural and social space and its (re)interpretation in shifting location and presentation. Expanding tangentially from Daniel Buren’s 1970 text Beware, the exhibition intends to draw together disparate readings of the institution (in an expanded definition) through the “…constant relationship between the container (location) and the contents (the total proposition)” with the view that “…this relationship is always annulled or reinvoked by the next presentation” Naomi Bell, working in the parameters of the cultural space, creates sculptural installations and prints that accentuate space through form and light, creating surfaces and volumes that reflect and interfere with surrounding architectural structures.Dominic Samsworth reinforces the common within the cultural space, and through usurping it creates monumentality out of nothing, For Container and Contents, Samsworth will appropriate the existing fluorescent lights into an installation, which in negating the functionality of these fixtures, disrupts the form and intention of the gallery.Joanna Waclawski represents the social space through photography, abstracting the inherently familiar to a garish mismatch of colours and shapes. Waclawski’s images give no hint to location, existing as hopeless acts of preservation destroying what it attempts to secure.
