Carriers

Kate Owens' show is at Seventeen Gallery, 17 Kingsland Road

Kate Owens’ new solo exhibition at Seventeen Gallery is an exploration of the ‘objectness’ of objects, removed from their normal functional contexts and bared to examination.

Carriers is premised on the idea that we may only really become sensitive to a given object’s characteristics when it is no longer able to perform its prescribed function. “According to this logic, the hammerness of a hammer becomes most apparent when we see it lying unused and broken – without a head or snapped by the stem”, says a spokesperson for the gallery.

Kate Owens’ work “asserts the possibility that a break, mark, glitch or rip offers a kind of conceptual freedom to an object. In this new series of works, Owens intertwines objects and materials, testing the properties of one item with the wilfully incompatible properties of another, to create moments of unexpected consequence. These combinations push objects to the limit of their functionality in order to reveal their core attributes or weaknesses.”

A new publication by Kate Owens, Early Works, is being launched to coincide with this exhibition.

Carriers
13 April – 21 May
Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm
Seventeen Gallery
17 Kingsland Road
E2 8AA

020 7729 5777