Things Fall

About

Things Fall is an exhibition of new and recent sculptural works by a collective of eleven artists living and working across the UK, who explore notions of precariousness, fallibility, and ephemerality in a time of social, political and environmental instability.

Playful and unruly, the work is connected by a shared interest in sculptural precarity. Often improvisational and made of ordinary everyday materials, their mutable forms are activated with a sense of potential energy that keeps them alive and open to new possibilities. They won't fall (hopefully) but they may sometimes teeter, clinging on to verticality, while resisting permanence, solidity and certainty.

This sense of precarity extends beyond the material structures and processes employed in their creation, to explore wider ideas about what sculpture is – and is for. It upends ideas of a traditional monument and riffs on versions of 'antimonumental' sculpture; whether in terms of resisting physical monumentality – by embodying fragility, mess, absurdity and chance; or in terms of replacing, subverting, and reframing the contested legacies of colonial monuments.

By extension, Things Fall might be seen to call into question any of the structures, systems and frameworks that prop up contemporary life.