The works in the exhibition, A Rregular Shaped Tool, are made from an observation that there is a gap between the way we approach art and the way we function inside the everyday. A gap between x and z, where (x) is our approach to art: what we bring to it, what we reserve from it; what conditions and operations we anticipate, demand, and even come to expect art to comport to, and where (z) is the liveliness of our commonplace faculties: the way we hold ourselves in the context of the production of space; the bulky body charged by the awkward and anxious, but also charged with being a political languaged citizen in the world.
The exhibition asks whether this gap could become a grey frost icing over more integrated, accretive ways of thinking because of what happens (or is prevented from happening) when we block the conventions of the ordinary from moving with and into works of art.
Each of the sculptured works in the exhibition, A Rregular Shaped Tool, then, can be viewed as a thawing device towards melting the gap between how we approach art and how we function inside the everyday. The work is made by bringing together the frictioned, conflicting inputs from any everyday moment (gesture, mark, text, pattern, movement) and considers the formation of subjectivities within and by that complicated moment, including languaged political subjectivities acknowledging them also, simultaneously, as embodied subjectivities.
– Ragen Moss
