BUILD/FOUND,MAKE. CONCEAL/HIDE/KEEP SAFE. PUT TOGETHER, COMPOSE

BUILD/FOUND,MAKE. CONCEAL/HIDE/KEEP SAFE. PUT TOGETHER, COMPOSE

Curated by Savannah Du Quercy and Emma Papworth

27 Jan—16 Mar 2025
Private view: Thursday, 27th February 2025, 6 – 9pm
Public Dates: Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm

Contact information
savannahquercy@gmail.com

The city is an archive, gathered and held together by invisible decisions. Each material carries a history of use and disuse; to build is to assemble, to sift through what is left behind, to reconstruct meaning from the discarded.

What if the act of collecting, concealing, and recomposing within these spaces of precarity allowed for something to be constructed anew; something looser, less complete, a free plan in which things work together without being held in place? Found materials pulled into new alignments, objects nested within objects, structures emerging from debris.

Here, making is a practice of reconfiguration. What resists dissolution finds a new form.

To reconfigure is to read the city’s margins, to understand its undercurrents, to locate value in what has been cast aside.

Each composition is a site of both excavation and invention. A fragment can be a foundation.

A space can be a shelter. What is built is never static – it is held together, for now.

BUILD/FOUND,MAKE. CONCEAL/HIDE/KEEP SAFE. PUT TOGETHER, COMPOSE
Artists in the show
  • Bo Sun
  • Elliot Fox
  • Emma Papworth
  • Gabriela Pelczarsk
  • Janek Nixon
  • Laura Kazaroff
  • Laurence Owen
  • Savannah Du Quercy
  • Tom Sewell

Exhibition Images

Artwork List

Subterrane No.2
Subterrane No.2
Laurence Owen , 2019
Microscopic Blossom
Microscopic Blossom
Elliot Fox , 2024
Host Escape
Host Escape
Bo Sun , 2025
Vadum-Profundum
Vadum-Profundum
Savannah du Quercy , 2024
Blue Smoke From A Cigarette / Niebieski Dymek Z Papierosa
Blue Smoke From A Cigarette / Niebieski Dymek Z Papierosa
Janek Nixon , 2024
Refracted Cycle
Refracted Cycle
Elliot Fox , 2025
Tough time never lasts, only tough people last
Tough time never lasts, only tough people last
Gabriela Pelczarska , 2025
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Gabriela Pelczarska , 2025
Chrono-tectonic II
Chrono-tectonic II
Emma Papworth , 2025
Solar
Solar
Janek Nixon , 2025
Shikasta
Shikasta
Tom Sewell
Defence Mechanism Enhancer 2
Defence Mechanism Enhancer 2
Laura Kazaroff