“For the final exhibition of 2010 Schwartz Gallery presents the work of Alex Baker and Kit Poulson in an ambitious collaborative sculptural installation located in the main gallery space. Kit Poulson and Alex Baker have been collaborating for over 10 years producing installations and live works that explore the edges of object making, sound, text and movement.
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Building outwards to escape from our own plans, to subvert our own thoughts…
We began with two eight-foot square cubes, occupying one each. From here we unfolded out into the gallery space. The work became a conversation as our paths met. We continued to move freely, inhabiting the cubes, transforming them into new forms. Around the cubes we constructed four tables; sites for collaborative making.
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Our bath fills from the plughole?
Our work contains elements of sculpture, installation and performance. It explores how simple plans generate ever more complex systems and the convergence of the act of making and the act of thinking as conversation; conversation between two artists, the world and material, the work and the space and the time of the show.
In these works different speeds of making are visible; rapid improvisation and slow considered construction, as we negotiate our way through the objects that emerge from the collision of our activities.
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Our conversation will create an architectural confection, which emerges from the para-modern ideas of Suprematism, the Elterwater Merzbarn and the ‘garden shed aesthetics’ of the Brutalist Smithsons.”
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