The Story of Three Sentences

The three eponymous 'sentences'; "Bevan's Asthma", "Rachel gets ready to go out drinking" and "Swing to Infinity Baby", manifested themselves in the gallery as an audio-speaker dripping with water, a screen-saver style video projection and a participatory swinging mechanism for the Enjoy visitor to lean back within. As narratives about the everyday, the works extended to embody their titles, like instructions for their use.

Howden-Chapman explored the interdependency of language and object. Faded materials, itchy with age, were played off against the slick, reflective and newly constructed to create works that offered the gallery viewer a playfully painful, interactive sensory experience. The works aimed to lead the viewer through a path of gimmicky-humour and into a space of reflection and disorientation to create a 'pulse effect'. Subtle and simple in execution, the artist described this feeling as "the slip of a water-slide, coupled with the smell of good bathroom ceiling mould."

Curated by Louise Tulett