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21/5/2003

The textual triptych II

PM Gallery & House, London

Object in absentia
Installation projects by Tom Hackett

The exhibition can be seen in both the House and Gallery

PM Gallery & House launch the textural triptych the second in a trilogy of site sensitive sculptural installations by Visual artist Tom Hackett. object in absentia is one of three commissioned projects for 2003 to be staged under the umbrella of the textual triptych at three architecturally dynamic spaces. PM Gallery and House, UH Galleries Hatfield, and Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.

Since the early 1990's Hackett has built a reputation for creating ambitious and exciting installations which investigate the use of architectural space. Working with both manufactured and self produced elements Hackett orchestrates often hum drum items into highly evocative environments.

object in absentia reacts to the physicality of the domed glass skylight roof and cites the Gallery's former function as a Library by dropping between 500 - 600 cast number sequences made from clear casting resin into the visual field, to form a cascading translucent mass of Dewey Decimal Classification codes. Each number sequence represents a library coding as found on the spine of a Library book. Each coding is ascribed in relation to an object chosen by and collected from a person resident in the Borough of Ealing. In response to the rooms and existing furniture, Hackett also strategically places individual resin library codes around the adjacent Pitzhanger Manor historic house.

Hackett has been described as 'teasing us with a disarming mix of deceptive technical simplicity and a creative spirit as wild and ranging as the stars' and someone who 'systematically transforms banalities into deceptively simple moments of bemused and amused wonderment' Robert Clark (The Guardian)

Showing alongside object in absentia PM Gallery & House will also show 'Lache pas la pataté', which along with 'Pulp' forms part three of 'the textual triptych' tour in collaboration with these three architecturally dynamic spaces, linked by a relationship with the written word.

For further details/images please contact Edward Ward/Valerie Chang on: 020 8567 1227..Ends

Fri 23 May - Sun 6 July 2003
Tues - Fri 1pm - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm - Sunday 1pm - 5pm
Private View: Thursday 22 May - 6.00pm - 9.00pm

PM Gallery & House, Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing, London, W5 5EQ.
Tel: (020) 8567 1227

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