I DUE LETTI DI UN FIUME (Two riverbeds) is a site specific installation made for the show:

LE NUVOLE VANNO E VENGONO, SEMBRANO ANIMALI, MA LI VEDONO SOLO I BAMBINI (The clouds come and go, they look similar to animals, but only children can see that)

The materials used were all salvaged from an alley behind my studio in Croydon, which separates the railway tracks from the backyards of nearby houses. The shattered glass used in the two floor pieces was collected over the two months leading up to the exhibition.

‘Plot: near the site of an old building being renovated, there are skips filled with tradesmen’s tools or children’s debris or whatever else might fill them. Disposed things in a pile, sort of like lying vacant words, expendable. And the old building stands not unlike an earthwork, large and glacial, stained green by moss. It was built in an architectural language that centuries have allowed us to unlearn, and left us only to poorly reenact. Maybe the old building was once a museum. With catalogs of bones of lost and indescribable archetypes of flesh. Sights that can no longer enliven certain possibilities within us. The builders make adjustments and bore holes into the masonry for wiring and tubes. So, throughout the building are sprouting systems tendrils. Planting or installing: latices of metal brackets, mass produced blues and other synthetic color use to make distinct fibers for the nervous system. Wiry, eclectic and electric.’

- extract from press release by Sean Pearl

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