At one end lies the human capacity for collaboration-for building, dismantling, and rebuilding together. At the other, the relentless demands of capitalism, rooted in the pursuit of unending profit. Where Ends Meet explores the tensions between these ends and the start of something else.
Where Ends Meet is my most expansive and ambitious exhibition to date. Contemplating the art world coming to an end and not with a big bang but in a slow grinding tide of irritating mundanity, Where Ends Meet strikes with some distance, enveloping atmosphere across three bodies of work.
These works represent a reification of comics art.Deconstructed comic pages-disassembling graphic sequences, panels, composition, and narrative structure that focus toward minimalist gestures. The result was an exhibition that dwelled in the pleasures of slow process: monochromatic mark-making, careful use of colour, and the quiet rhythm of reduction. Each work a marker of the in-between space-neither wholly resistant nor fully complicit, but an open site for negotiation, experimentation, and pause.
Shown across two gallery spaces the exhibition was one that invited the viewer to recognise what no longer serves us and reinvest in nurturing structures and ways that restore our knowledge in the value of art for art sake.
The exhibition included a new publication Human Work; with 100 impressions responding to the question of what labour is today. I curated this over a year or so with 100 friends.
Resisting the logic of labour as commodity, Human Work challenges the pressures of productivity and transactional value. Instead, inviting reflection on creative process, mutual transparency, and the potential for genuine collaboration in an urgent era for human work.
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