Paul Carter - Rm.14 : Mark Tanner Sculpture Award

18 Sep-24 Oct 2009

Overview

Whatever the thing is, it must not obviously be art. Pulled from a construction site, a bombsite, left to rot where they fall, these raw objects are packed into cubic spaces, vertical spaces, horizontal spaces, to be stored, the anti-archive of rot and residue. Carter does not reclaim his materials, he subjects them to pressure until they break or become. Carter acts upon scale - compression and expansion, construction and demolition. The scale of a room, the scale of the body, the scale of a box. The inhabited space is the room we are ascribed (Rm.15) and the flesh of our body. The box is a possession, and a building block, and a head sized cube, made of detritus, mangled and glued in an exact and disrespectful mince.