Turtle dove
David Borg, Dominic Sargent & Augusta Vinall Richardson
Turtle dove
Curated by Nicholas Kleindienst
19 October - 28 October, 2017
Dominic Sargent, Untitled, 2017, Cages, packing tape, styrofoam, cardboard, potatoes, onions, orange, birdfeed, hamster wheel, water dispenser, mirror and plastic toys. Dimensions variable. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: In the middle, there is a medium sized black birdcage that has eight brown onions sitting inside of it. Behind there is a large box that is covered in yellow-brown packing tape, with an onion sitting on top of the box.
Artist Statement
Some exhibition strategies can be obstructive in their desire for clean lines and didactic logic. The exhibition turtle dove, organised by artist Nicholas Kleindienst, argued for such obstructive ambiguities, for confusing displayed object with display support. Some works were shown for the public, the rest were also for the public, a future public. Presenting the works of artists David Borg, Dominic Sargent and Augusta Vinall Richardson, turtle dove considered the politics of images, revealing potentials for the destabilisation and conflation of display models that exist within documentation.
An artist book, titled turtle dove, containing texts from Sebastian Goldspink, Chelsea Hopper and Nicholas Kleindienst accompanied the exhibition.
David Borg, Not My Luck, 2017, Digital print on canvas, white board marker. 160 × 40 cm. David Borg, Untitled (Wall Drawings) 2017, Pencil and wire. Dimensions variable. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: There is a large white fabric pinned to the white wall, on it there are blotches of abstract purple shapes, with a black and yellow flower on the right side of it. In the middle there is black calligraphy written all over the fabric, that is eligible to read and look like scribbles on the fabric.
Left: Dominic Sargent, Untitled, 2017, cages, packing tape, Styrofoam, cardboard potatoes, onions, orange, birdfeed, hamster wheel, water dispenser, mirror and plastic toys, dimensions variable. Right: Dominic Sargent, Houses Architects Live In, 2017, Acrylic on unprimed canvas. 113 × 87cm. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: In the space, there is a purple birdcage sitting in the middle, with a collection of onions and potatoes inside of it. Leaning up against it is a yellow duct taped box on the left, that is tilted up by a pile of brown potatoes. In the far middle corner, there is a blue birdcage with onions and potatoes inside of it, with a large yellow duct taped box sitting behind it, with one onion sitting on top. On the right hand side wall, there is a unframed painting of a dining room, that displays an archway staircase, and a single brown wooden chair.
Turtle dove, 2017, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: On the left in the middle of the space, there is a small metal silver birdcage, with a yellow duct taped box sitting behind it. On the wall from the left there are pencil illustrations of flowers across the first half of the wall, then two fabric works pinned to the wall. The first work is white that has been stained on the left side down with a nude pink, and mulberry colour. With calligraphy writing across it and illustrations and scribbles in mulberry and black ink. The second one a mixture of nude pink, purple and mulberry is pigmenting the white fabric with various scribbles and writing all over it, and one bright orange blob in the middle.