Exhibtion

Exhibtion by Archie Taylor

“Across 10 rooms, the white ceiling lights start to hurt the viewers eyes, people become dehydrated and look for chairs.”

‘Exhibition’ is a zine by Archie Taylor, in which artworks stolen from the Tate archives are remade retaining the original titles.The works appear in an imagined exhibition entitled ‘Exhibition’, where a faint smell of polyester lingers in the air amongst cheap objects, plastic things and ‘Stuf.’

These new artworks are made to fill in the boredom found in front of international collections. Exhibition goers grow tired, people run out of patience, intellectual property becomes repetition, the cannon dulls but it is all that we have.

This exhibition updates the canon to contemporary tastes with a “newfound materiality’, made using a detritus of data, objects and shape. It is a cultural goo that pours off assembly lines, it is the stuf that inflates cartoons, it is vague, formless, and hyper-processed.

The exhibition begs the question is there meaning in contemporary culture at all? Archie’s creations point toward a basic answer, the images largely taking on the form of faces, collages of everyday pareidolia, expressing the basic desire to find human connection in an artificial world.

‘Exhibition’ is the first in our Good Thieves series.

A5, 12 Pages.
Printed in the UK.
2024