Moments are Monuments — BY ART MATTERS
JAMESPLUMB’s Stained Moons, Tender Pray VII, Indigo Bench and For Better For Worse III form part of 'Moments are Monuments', a new exhibition at BY ART MATTERS in Hangzhou, China. The exhibition showcases more than eighty works by twenty-nine artists, including pieces by Anthony Caro, Edmund de Waal, Rachel Whiteread and JAMESPLUMB. The exhibition aims to highlight the importance of small, individual moments within the relentless flow of life as well as how ordinary objects can be imbued with significance and transferred into ‘monuments’. Consisting of eight ‘chapters’ corresponding to a different theme; each room of the exhibition offers audiences a different starting point for reflection.
This is the second public showing of the JAMESPLUMB’s installation piece Stained Moons; this time in a custom designed and built darkroom. Stained Moons is an installation of light and shadow, evoking the eight phases of the moon. The images are found within glass shards covered with moss, lichen and dirt, salvaged from an abandoned greenhouse. Projected by optical techniques, the moons appear to hover in the darkness of the room.
In the room ‘A Silent Monologue’, JAMESPLUMB’s Tender Pray VII (2019) rests – a 19th century prayer Chair, antique church pew bench and cast concrete block. Whilst in another room JAMESPLUMB’s ‘Indigo Bench’ and ‘For Better For Worse III’ sit in conversation with a series of Ettore Sottsass’ photographs.
August 15, 2024 – October 13, 2024
398 Tianmushan Road, Hangzhou
Photos
- Liuliu Jiang
- BY ART MATTERS
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