Alex Julyan

Sited in Holland Park Orangery, London, this accumulation of ephemera reflects the eclectic passions of an anonymous collector. An array of once-useful and familiar items is displayed alongside the obscure, ridiculous and intriguing. The collection playfully questions the role of the curator as an arbiter of cultural truths.

Constructed almost entirely from cardboard, these large and small-scale sculptures tread a line between the useful and the useless. Created in response to our rapidly shifting technological landscape, their hybridized forms and poetic names refer to a simpler, more nostalgic relationship with the machine.

Inspired by C19th paper theatres, these 3-dimensional constructions are assembled from discarded issues of The London Illustrated News 1859.  Engravings depicting real events are carefully dissected and their components re-configured. Each setting is constructed in miniature, its characters, perspectives and visual twists collide to create an array of narrative possibilities 

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