An exhibition of new work by young British sculptor Conrad Shawcross, photographed for Your Gallery in his Hackney studio by Dafydd Jones, will open during frieze at Victoria Miro.
The work for Conrad Shawcross's exhibition, 'No Such Thing As One', has been specially conceived for the gallery space and brings together a body of work concerning the essence of matter. Shawcross takes as a starting point the philosophical question: is there such a thing as an atom or basic unit, or is everything always divisible into something smaller? Engaging subjects that lie on the borders of physics and philosophy, Shawcross's structural, often mechanical sculptures have circumnavigated themes to do with mathematics, cosmology and harmonics. While at first appearing rational and functional, his complex works ultimately deny both reason and purpose forcing the viewer down philosophical and metaphysical avenues to deduce possible meanings.
The three new works in his forthcoming exhibition are Paradigm (Ode to the Difference Engine), 2006, a giant double rope machine unravelling its rope as fast as it can ravel it; Binary Star, 2006, the latest in Shawcross's series of kinetic light works and his most physically ambitious to date; and Space Grid (Mirrored tetrahedron system), 2006, a 6-D grid of dense geometry with infinite possibilities, created with the help of a cosmological mathemetician.
'No Such Thing As One' opens at Victoria Miro on Saturday 14 October and continues until 11 November.
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