Poignancy Passing Muster
at 'Wharf Road Project', V22, London 4th - 19th October 2008
A Collaborative exhibition between artists Laura Eldret, Adam Thomas, Stephen Warrington and Ed Workman. Poignancy Passing Muster displays the results of a group of artists partaking in multiple games of consequences.
Installation shot of PPM
- Poignancy; the state or condition of being poignant; affecting the emotions, profoundly moving and touching, neat, skilful, and to the point, astute and pertinent, piercing; incisive, agreeably intense or stimulating, sincere and heartfelt.
- Passing Muster; to call together as for inspection, to cause to come together, to call forth, summon up, a gathering (especially of troops, for service, inspection, review, or roll call), a collection, a group of peacocks, crows or storks, to be judged as acceptable.
SALE by all artists in PPM, mixed media, 2008
" I COVET COMPANIONS "
" Be careful don't walk in your feet... " We enter the studio. We are suited and booted and, in a small, one-person craft, we take off for a gas giant. It is a lonely task, studying the intensely inhospitable atmosphere. The goal is to make sense of rhythms and noises, to grapple with codes and etiquettes, and hopefully - eventually - to connect. The abrasive clouds that surround us represent the impossible: ignoring nothing and remembering everything. These are our highways and our craft rides them as if they were concrete. The craft is our shell and our shelter - what had been a bare and grubby room, is now a site of inwardness, a place of communion. Slowly, the gas giant reveals itself as a place both populous and accommodating…
THE SELF-WILLED PHASE " The age of two is the age of self-will - as most parents are all too aware! It is the age of tantrums. The child must have his own way: if he wants to go somewhere, he insists on going; if he wants to do something, nothing must prevent him. He is the Eastern potentate who cannot brook frustration or interference." Hadfield, J. A. (1962) Childhood and Adolescence, Penguin Books, Middlesex
We assemble for work, the flickering light of inspiration dispelling doubt and igniting revelation, expectations are set for passing muster and with a collective order we strive for poignancy.
"Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house" Fran Lebowitz
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