New Work

September 4 – October 11, 2008
Exhibition, Installation

About the Program

Jake Hill's work is rooted in sculpture and this new work is significantly different from his previous work for its minimal mass and implied, rather than real, form. The installation continues his research into achieving scale and form through the use of materials that are absent, vacant, or almost nothing. The work is inspired by drawings that depict making things—like shop sketches or illustrated recipes. Such devices lie or at least they cannot tell the whole truth. They need faith or a willful misreading to believe that something could exist as a result of them. Hill's exhibit, inscribed directly into the gallery, uses the cast shadow of a ping pong ball to carve a dent out of a wall and drawings to provide evidence of a new physics of presence. The installation deploys an artificial logic and an opportunity for the viewer's willful misreading of rational evidence to produce an imaginary space.

Artist

Jake Hill

Curator

Glenn Alteen

Identifier

2008.0904 NEW

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

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