A Retrospective View of the Pathway

Two heavy industrial vessels emit a fun foamy bubble. It’s impossible to resist! The work invites you to feel, smell and play, just like a child. Quick: before you know it, the foam is gone again. Hiorns confronts you with an uncertain, unpredictable situation. As such, he questions the usual relations between art and audience that is used to static, permanent objects. We often have expectations when going to look at something. Here, we must let those expectations go. This may feel like liberation from the many rules that regulate our society. Or does it make you feel uncomfortable? 

Roger Hiorns (1975, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. The artist explores material and form in the broadest sense of the word. Characteristic of his work is the combination of opposites: hard and soft, dark and light, young and old. He sees these opposites as ‘pathways’: successive steps within a story.