In late February we met at the Upright Gallery to catch Ken Wilders Juncture exhibition before we missed it!
The window greets you with a view into the ever decreasing and shutting down scuptural beam – the Juncture of the title. The rest of the ground floor had two Rotation works – reminiscent of geometry puzzels or positional board games – and three panel pieces which produced an almost overwhelming urge to slide the blue, gold and plywood pieces arround.
Downstairs photographic prints document the installation of trays of milk in a Cornish engine house. The smooth white surfaces contrasting with the delapidated stone and wild seascapes, as if parts of the scene had been erased in Milky Voids.
We also watched a video, part of an earlier installation called Skylights.
Thinking through the shapes, colours and themes in the exhibition led to some thoughts on artists’ book structures that could form a pocket sized response. A meander book of repositionable panels, a flexagon game board and a variation on a Hedi Kyle Ziggurat for the cantilevered beam – sketching with paper folds.
