Gareth Sion Jenkins: At Rest there is no Resting
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The installation consists of 58 assemblages that the artist considers to be sculptures.
Artist Statement:
'These are assemblages. Let's call them sculptures.
Let's call them art.
Their monetary value is hard to quantify.
It is tricky.
They are not the sum of their parts.'
C O N T A C T
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The price guide has been arrived at by the artist counting the items left on his cutting mat after months of making and can be counted as a Map of works available in the exhibition catalogue.
Artist Explanation: Is this a meaningful approach?
Like I said, it is tricky.
Almost all the assembled components have had other lives with other values and functions and experiences.
Does the volumetric pipette remember what it has measured?
Does the sand remember the river?
Do the halogen down lights remember the electricity that burned them out?
Does the photographic negative remember my father’s hand that directed it towards my foraging form?
Does the film-font remember the movies they credited?
Do the African seed pods remember that far away soil that fed them?
Do the Fresnel Lens Tungsten Lamp Covers remember the light that passed through them?
Do the glass jars remember what they have held?
Does that water remember their underground source?
Do the piano keys remember the tones they made? The fingers that played them?
I mean, do they even want to be art?
That’s probably something you’re best to decide.