A new sculptural installation by Plymouth-based artist Tom Pether, whose practice ingests, transforms and excretes objects we use in our lives; exploring our desire to escape the world, our inevitable failure to do so, and how this haunts us.

In trying to embody the losability of the world, rather than the world itself, Tom’s crusted objects bear an unbidden but welcome patina of time and wear that shrouds the discrete histories of their component parts: new properties emerge; layered up somehow, like the scent of smoke and bodies and cooking in a houseshare’s communal landing, to form an archipelago of self-contained worlds that are remote yet familiar, physically stark yet conceptually overstuffed—fundamentally doomed attempts to understand everything through mute objects possessing a knowledge that language can’t parse.

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Venue: Gallery333, Exeter Phoenix

An intimate window gallery for micro-installations and sculptural interventions.

Gallery333 is generously supported by Indira Carr.