Object Memory is an exhibition and store curated by Present Tense. It brings together artists and makers who work with materials that arrive with their own stories and create new ones. It looks at materials that—whether salvaged, repurposed, transported, or lifted from a completely different field—are rebuilt into new objects. Others carry a sense of nostalgia, like the latex lamps from Louie Isaaman Jones which, while entirely new, evoke the memory of a clothes line, or the metalwork of Sophie Turner of Lore Archive, whose pieces trace silhouettes laden with both the weight and levity of familiar garments. The exhibition asks whether materials remember where they came from, and what they carry into their new forms—how, just as in poetry, makers can play with shape as synonym, and cross-reference received ideas with unassured materials to open new meaning and possibility.

Included as part of this two-week show is a small shop featuring additional pieces by our most loved makers, whose personal poetries we cannot wait to share with you.

Opening Night: Friday 12th from 6pm

Open between: 12th - 21st December

Weekdays 9-3

Weekends 9-5

Makers:

Lore Archive,

Louie Isaaman Jones,

Ame Pearce,

Makiko McDonald,

Oficina (Amsterdam),

Lichen (Japan, France),

Slant Editions (Paris),

Hopscotch (Berlin),

Monitor Press,

Bona Varda,

Lana,

Hato Press,

E F Davies Clay.

Curated by Bianca Pina