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Work Type:installation
Date of work:1999
Style Period:Contemporary art
Subject:objects, purchasing, DIY
Technique:video/assemblage
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
Nathaniel Mellors' films people leaving the exits of a DIY store with their purchases. At a certain point he makes exactly those purchases and later he arranges this material, in the gallery, to achieve an informal sculptural assemblage. Using the mechanism of an arbitrary system, presumably, frees him to explore aesthetics without the guilt of choice; in a constant search to find form.
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Source:From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence. “New Contemporaries 99”, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1999.
Date of source:1999