Lloyd Corporation, Upcycle (Relief I), 2013, Fired wood, steel, Thames Water bottle, Evian Mineral water bottle, plaster, concrete, miranti. Courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Lloyd Corporation
Competing Temporalities
6 June – 6 July 2013
at Carlos/Ishikawa, London
“Competing Temporalities” uses a range of predominantly found objects and structures taken directly from ubiquitous sites of the city, such as the street or the scrap yard and recomposes them as sculptures within the space of the gallery. This array of objects, amongst other works, includes various forms of drinking water bottles (from leisure to tap water relief), weathered rainwater pipes, a temporary plywood construction hoarding, a ´collage´ produced in the attempt to separate old tabloid fly-posters stuck together.
The sculptures oscillate between the aesthetics of the commodity and that of disposal and degradation. The accuracy and modulated line of the industrially fabricated object is disturbed by the contingent and sporadic marks of time – borne out by rust, water damage, paint and maintenance or simply disposal (sometimes even without use).
The various contrasts played out in the work make a consideration of the cycles and effects of mass production, circulation, consumption, accumulation and waste. This begins to develop a wider exploration of the often conflicting and typically ambiguous forms of materiality and temporality that we experience in our encounters of the urban environment and the commodity objects that invariably shape our lives within contemporary capitalist society. [read the full text from the Wall Street International review]
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Lloyd Corporation, Competing Temporalities, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Lloyd Corporation, Competing Temporalities, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Lloyd Corporation, Identical Strangers (1-10), 2013, Rainwater pipes, concrete. Courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Lloyd Corporation, Identical Strangers (1-10), 2013, Rainwater pipes, concrete. Courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Lloyd Corporation, Value at Risk, 2013, Advertising boards, flyposters. Courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Lloyd Corporation, Untitled, 2013, Plywood, loft insulation, cardboard, gaffa tape, bulkheads. Courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa, London