Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Until Sat 7 May
Jenny Hall’s interactive exhibit Hollow inspired by a copper mine, explores the creative destruction involved in the art of construction. The giant hollow sculpture is made of loose cardboard boxes connected by magnets, to represent the ‘ore’ that has been extracted from inside the large mine model.
The cardboard ‘mine’ is built on a mirrored floor, to reflect the form above giving an even bigger visual effect.
The exhibit encourages the public to move, stack and build with the pieces of the ‘ore’, but to consider the empty space it leaves behind. It seeks to explore the equal and opposite actions of excavation and construction and to explore the question ‘what is left in the emptiness?’
When living in Finland, Jenny Hall developed the idea for this exhibit when hearing more about the local Orijarvi copper mine. The point for the exhibit to be interactive to the public is to explore a creative understanding for displacement and destruction. Throughout history, we have burrowed underground for raw materials to build wealth. But what happens when you can visually see and experience the effect that has?
With every move of a cardboard box, something else is changed making there an easier understanding of underground chambers.
“When we make, we unmake.”
(KG)
Tickets: £2-£5. Info: 01970 623232 / www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk