Strange Loop

Babel

Trondheim, Norway

2-4 December 2016

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Strange Loop, explored the concept of symbolism and narrative in relation to sculptural form. The focus was on the individual object: exploring the shifting narrative structures present within sculptures and their occupied space. To do this the artists considered how the assemblage and alteration of physical components within an artwork affects and distorts its inherent symbolic components. Like words in a sentence, that when reshuffled, form new meanings, the show strives for a curatorial device to examine the transient state of narrative in relation to the sculptural form itself: by means of a physical process.

 

The new works of each artist were reassembled daily over the course of the exhibition, inviting viewers to re-visit the shifting works and forge new readings from each new alteration.

 

Strange Loop was the second of two shows supported by The Henry Moore Foundation. The exhibition developed and grew from its show earlier in the year at Gallery EX14 in Dresden, Germany.