If Duchamp
was the pioneer of the readymade artwork, well then this is verging towards a
readymade exhibition, would Duchamp be proud? He might be hooked to the line of
hooks hung in ascending order of scale, or fixated by the screws, but he may
also think it takes the biscuit (well nearly the biscuit, they’ve nabbed the
coffee stirrers).
The curation
of the exhibition seems to track minimalist tendencies and has something of the
Martin Creed about it. If you ever thought art exhibitions resulted in
objectification, well this is definitely objectification – its objects, plain
and simple. An assemblage of miscellaneous collections, each object acts as a
line in an overarching narrative of the exhibition as a whole. You may read
into it some domestic or nostalgic theme fixated on the past, however the
taxonomy is far from taxing.
Although
fellow viewers in the exhibition seemed to get hung up on the hooks, the
objects which are used almost unconsciously in the everyday could collude with
consumerist ideals. Objects are replicated, mass produced and combined to
create a new existence for the objects held in a higher status than their
typical everyday neglect.
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