West Space May Exhibitions

Overview

It’s hard to write about art. How to even attempt to effectively communicate and quantify something so imaginative and indefinable that the person who made it probably doesn’t even use lined paper to scrawl their notes because they’re just so darned creative that even their shopping lists can’t exist within confines. You know what’s harder than writing about one exhibition? Writing about five. I throw my hands up, I have been defeated — West Space’s next wave of exhibitions, opening this Thursday night, can speak for themselves.

In the front space Jessie Bullivant’s Giving away something that is free could be a reference to the generosity of West Space’s (free or heavily discounted, I’m not sure) bar policy. In actual fact it’s about the relationship between the size of an action and it’s weight, that other idea is just a conspiracy theory and happy coincidence. Elsewhere, Scott Mitchell’s Object Therapy obsessively explores the nature of…stuff, Pulp Fictions by Jonas Ropponen and Andy Hutson showcases a papier-mache exchange program (the best kind of exchange program), Andie Tham’s Inherited and Borrowed reimagines the grandiose and the mundane in cardboard silhouettes and Risa Sato’s Spaceship ‘Kari-nui’ sees an inflatable spaceship touch down, all the way from Yokohama via Pluto, Saturn and Mars.

I could try and draw connections between this big old smorgasbord of art, but I’d be clutching at straws. Get down there to forge your own associations, whilst enjoying the high quality people watching always on offer at a West Space opening.

Image credit Scott Mitchell.