Shallow Haunts is a coming together of Tom Bull and Lewis Davidson, both of whose works deploy elements of the unbelievable and fictitious. The exhibition is a dialogue between the artists, who have been in conversation since the beginning of the year, thoughtfully planning how their works communicate with each other, almost like sentences forming a text. Together, Bull and Davidson render new narratives that explore notions of value, purpose and transience through the playful engagement of the gallery space.
Through sculpture, the artists find themselves approaching similar subjects from very distinct aesthetic perspectives. Both grew up in the countryside and seem to have inherited the same attitude to finding objects and transforming them into new forms. Now in London, they imagine new significances and utilities for the ephemera of the designed world. The ecstasy of a modern metropolis, in which everything is manmade, everything fits together with precision and purpose, gives way to an emptiness at its heart; the vacancy of the automaton, the replicability of everything, the waste for the landfill. Bull and Davidson’s work both examine this emptiness, the haunting of shallow objects, crafting strange new futures with modern-day artefacts.
About the artists:
Lewis Davidson (b. 1990) joins, mends and reconfigures the overlooked components that make up the mundane fabric of the everyday in attempt to build a new and unrecognisable world.
Tom Bull (b. 1995) makes sculptures in the absurd attempt to capture the lived experience within these dark, strange and untrustworthy times.
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