16:9 is a billboard attached to the yard-side of Kingsgate Workshops. It's visible from the street and from Kilburn Grange Park. Kingsgate Project Space commissions new works from emerging and established artists specially for this site.
We're excited to be launching a new 16:9 billboard by Henry Krokatsis. Alongside the 16:9 billboard, we will also be screening the artist’s Prost* films in the gallery entrance.
'On my studio wall I keep an evolving list of words - pairs of corresponding forces like:
Chaos / Order
Intuition / Superstition
Nihilism / Faith
Truth / Illusion
These are metaphysical forces, hidden determinants that have a powerful influence, whether we’re conscious of them or not. The sway of Chaos over Order in your life for example, will have a profound effect on you whether you actively contemplate it or not.
I’ve taken these words and embroidered them onto socks.
It’s a way to remind myself that these ideas aren’t just esoteric fancies we might consider in a philosophical moment, to remember that they’re embedded in the everyday, in the fabric of the mundane and that the extraordinary exists within the ordinary.
What changes when we properly pay attention to this idea, when we look at how these contestable, ethereal forces are integrated into our ordinary lives? What happens if we consciously change the balance in our lives between say Chaos and Order or Nihilism and Faith?’
Henry Krokatsis is a British artist based in London. Exhibitions include The Guggenheim Venice, Ordrupgaard Museum Denmark, Frieze Sculpture Park and Hastings Contemporary. Current exhibitions: a remaking of the interior of Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner, commissioned by English Heritage. His solo show ‘Widows, Orphans & Strangers’ opens in May at Galeria Leme, Sao Paolo.
