Timothy Davies
dal 28/6/2013 al 2/8/2013
Segnalato da
28/6/2013
Timothy Davies
Limoncello, London
Continental Breakfast. Containers for a complex set of references, stories, off-the-shelf psychoanalysis, tabloid economics, and straight historical representation.
Timothy Davies' work offers itself up for very apparent visual recognition – washing machines with coins inside; a replica stork nest sited in the gallery rafters; a bistro table with a segment cut out like a pie-chart; another table made of a giant DVD. This is where the easy bit ends. Each (let's say) commonplace starting point is a container for a complex set of references, stories, off-the-shelf psychoanalysis, tabloid economics, and straight historical representation.
The work ‘Trevi’ references Rome's eponymous water-feature, with two half-sized washing machines containing loose change and water bottled at the fountain source, set to wash indefinitely. An incongruous mix of the romantic and the thrifty. ‘Trevi’ illustrates conflicted relations to money, work and leisure. The coins also threaten the functioning of the appliances -> bad (home) economics -> guilt.
Limoncello
340-344 Kingsland Road London E8 4DA
hours:
Thursday – Saturday
11am – 6pm and by appointment