Foundation Study .01 Craft
2006, concrete
A waka made from individually cast blocks lies stranded on the gallery floor, like an anthropological relic from another time and place. This vessel hints at the way social and cultural artefacts can provide clues as to how we got here while questioning the validity of our interpretations. Foundation Study continues Grant Wylie’s exploration of the grid as an archetypal sculptural device able to reference both abstract and formal properties. He establishes tension between the grid’s infinite possibilities of space and surface, and its inherent systematic, containing nature. This tension is further developed in the idea of a voyage (and movement) and the weight of the concrete that inverts the notion of necessary floatability.
Read an essay by Jennifer Hay about this work
