B&B Project Space Proposal

Hello everyone.

We have set our first show!
Will be happening on June 1st at the B&B Project Space.

At the moment the artists considered are Ben, Hannah and Eleanor but we are hopping to extend it to more.

We are just on the preliminary stage of the arrangements but we just wanted all to know that things are happening. And slowly more shows will happen for everyone.

Exhibition Proposal

The exhibition will present works which explores issues of redundancy, recycling, regeneration, failure, and desire. For this reason, Folkestone would be a perfect space in which to explore these issues. Folkestone can be perceived as a redundant town. The image it portrayed of an idyllic, picturesque seaside town is out of date, and is no longer required from it. It is currently in a run down state, and there are many attempts to regenerate its centre. But what is the goal of this regeneration? To reconstruct the town into the picturesque postcard image it was, or into something new? Is it not questionable to reconstruct the image of Folkestone using a redundant ideal?

The works presented unravel many of these thematic issues, which find their roots in England’s Romantic past.

Eleanor Levett uses the craft of cross stitching to make her work. She explores various redundant symbols, with the intention to raise issues of fallacy within our visual language systems.

In the work Hope a phallus is presented with the word ‘hope’ below: “Hope may appear to be an example of the latter, but this ancient symbol of fertility reflects the instinctive hope for survival and growth that drives the human race. As genetic sciences and IVF develop the phallus is an image infused with conflicting meaning - redundancy vs potential.”

Hannah Lees constructs sculptures out of second-hand materials, which vary from driftwood to fake diamonds. She uses a complex language of materials to create hybrid ready-mades.
In the work Three wishes, the materials are carefully selected to resemble a maquette of a lakeside landscape. The dichotomy between the materials and the Romantic imagery in the work raises many issues relating to the failed picturesque, kitsch materiality, and aesthetics.

Benjamin Fletcher obsessively collects numerous kinds of second-hand objects, and uses these as materials to construct new curiosities. This act, however, is a purely selfish one, done in order to satisfy his personal desires.

Objects can be seen as an extension or articulation of a consumer’s desire. In this case, the artist’s practice can be seen as a second-hand form of consumerism. The old unwanted (privy of consumerist desire) objects are secretly collected, broken down, dissected, and reconstructed, in order to create new objects of desire. “They are made – solid and unjust, with desire above all reason.”