LTW – Stellen “Actuate” (Detail) 2013
LTW – Stellen “Actuate” 2013
LTW – Stellen “Trappings (Fracture)” 2013 2 Detail
7th- 22nd February The Depot, 38 Upper Clapton Road, Clapton, E5 8BQ London, UK
Stellen is an exhibition of sculptures by British artist Lewis Teague Wright. Curated by Roxie Warder and Suzannah Pettigrew.
The title of the exhibition, Stellen, is from the Old Dutch meaning ‘to state’, ‘to put forward’.
Teague Wright works predominantly in sculpture and film. For his second solo exhibition, he has pro- duced a series of sculptures based around the ideas of security, ownership, identity and spatial occu- pation.
The steel structures, at once both a threatening barrier and a delicate screen appear violated and therefore non-functioning as a protective shield, questioning the perception of structural means of security as a boundary between the inside and the outside, between safety and potential harm. They become a free standing form, no longer protecting an entrance but opening onto nothing and thereby challenging the connection between the occupation of space and banishment.
These steel gates form part of an ongoing series entitled Trappings/Fractures.
Waymarks transform a familiar form of packaging into solid bronze; a formally soft material used to protect another soft object, becomes tough and strong challenging its intended use and functionality.
Actuate adorned with 3M Tattle-Tape (which is used to guard items from theft from stores or libraries) is taken out of context and applied to two heavy steel sheets attached to a wall suggesting their perma- nence and thereby deterring a prospective thief.
Collectively these works seek to identify and question ownership, challenging perceptions of how boundaries visually suggest forbidden territory and define borders and spatial occupation.
About The Artist
Born in 1987 in the UK, Lewis Teague Wright is currently living and working in London. He finished his BA in 2009 with a First Class Honours in Fine Art at Byam Shaw (CSM).
Recent shows include; Magnum Opus, N/V PROJECTS, London, UK (2013) Fate of the Postern, Galler- ies Goldstein (2012), Mostra Collettiva Estiva, Bubble Byte (2012), Deleted Cities, Dundee Generator Projects, Dundee, UK (2012), ISYS:Paved With Gold Gold, Tate Modern (2012), Magnitude, London (2012), Gentle Jousting, O’Tannenbaum, Germany (2012), One Night Stand, London (2011), Off Mod- ern LATE, Barbican Gallery, London (2011), Online Presence (2011), Perfidious Gleam, London (2011), Carrion Dancers, London (2011), Il Labirinto di Cristallo, Bubble Byte (2011) Animate Everything, Protein Gallery, London (2011) Black Magick, Germany (2010), Sonic Horticulture 9/11 – HMK Gallery, Hoorn Netherlands (2010), Reely & Truely, London (2010), Permanent Vacation, Show Cave, Los Angeles CA (2010).
