Popcorn Machine
Renata Ottati, Jennifer Aldred, Isaac Willis, Douglas Rogerson, Roanna Holmes-Frodsham
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Installation view, Popcorn Machine, 2024
Installation view, Popcorn Machine, 2024
Installation view, Popcorn Machine, 2024
Jennifer Aldred, Lotus, 2024
Renata Ottati, Say You’ll Love Me Again, 2024
Isaac Willis, Be’twix’d and Obfufcating Domestick, 2024
Douglas Rogerson, Sets, 2024
Popcorn Machine
Renata Ottati, Jennifer Aldred, Isaac Willis, Douglas Rogerson, Roanna Holmes-Frodsham
03/02 – 17/02/24
The title relates to an inscrutable phrase that Renata Ottati found pencilled onto the kitchen wall of her dilapidated Southside tenement apartment. And it’s here – among garlands of torn wallpaper and the faint smell of glue – that she, Jennifer Aldred, Isaac Willis, Douglas Rogerson, and Roanna Holmes-Frodsham present their first collection of work since joining the postgrad course at the GSA.
Clearly each artist is fascinated by the ways in which we remember and fail to remember. A vintage muscle car miniaturised to toy-size then photographed and re-enlarged to car-size; kitchen tiles at once ruinous and immaculate; religious rituals and re-constructed gargoyles; laboriously reproduced woodcuts of Guy Fawkes; the mementoes of an Ecuadorian grandmother. Sculptures and images such as these are arranged in visual dialogue with the flat itself, or rather its strata of degradation and refurbishment.
Text: Henry Johns
Photo credit: Patrick Jameson.