In the Thick of Things

7 Nov-1 Dec 2024

PV 7 Nov 2024, 6-8pm

Overview

Baroque pasta, volcanic sourdough, jelly and ice cream, mattress dust, shoddy, clustering cables, cascading cassette tapes, exploding broom, clinical waste sacks.

‘Art Povera’ was a pivotal art movement in challenging the previous pre-conceptions of what sculpture is and how it is made. It could be said its importance laid the foundations much of the art we see now, and that nothing has equalled its radical and revolutionary ideas and artworks since. This exhibition takes much inspiration from this radical art movement.

This exhibition will bring together experimental sculpture and installations. Six artists will produce new, site-specific work, for the gallery at APT. Artworks with the focus on materials and stuff that challenges and surprises in its physicality and poetic existence.  The artists share a desire for stripping back revealing the feral, the source, the nudge into existence. They work with materials that are difficult to control, materials that are often awkward to stabilise and resist being fixed.

In the thick of Things is part of the biennial APT SHOTS Programme
APT SHOTS is an initiative of the Gallery and Programming Subcommittee that aims to make new and innovative use of the Gallery space.  

Set up in 2016 to operate through the curatorial concerns and agency of the Gallery and Programming Subcommittee, APT SHOTS aims to foster the core values of A.P.T as an artist-led project that recognises ‘the value of creativity in an environment where creativity may flourish’, whilst also developing a new direction and focused identity, and vision for the gallery, alongside its other projects and the exhibition programme.