shoddy / schäbig

In the English language shoddy is commonly used as a term for an inferior product or something badly made of poor quality. However, its origins are in the 1830s textile manufacturing trade where it was a type of affordable cloth produced by pressing reclaimed wool, an early form of what we now might recognise as recycling. The exhibition shoddy / schäbig reconsiders the term by exhibiting the work of artists who reclaim ‘poor’ and discarded materials in order to produce new art works from existing materials.

The exhibition will present a new work by Elliot Bottle using the detritus found on Berlin streets. Also produced specifically for the exhibition Mercedes Marszewski presents a new work for the gallery window referencing early zine productions. New works by Sophia Domagala using thread and found images are exhibited alongside a triptych by Florence Carr. Carr’s works are wall-based assemblages, constructed from parquet flooring and sourced Jacquard ribbon. Two new written works by David Cochrane are presented in the exhibition and act as both art works and contextual frames for the exhibition.

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