EITHER THOSE CURTAINS - FOLD Gallery London...“Either those curtains go, or I do.” Oscar Wilde This exhibition explores how the arrangement of personal interior space can reflect

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EITHER THOSE CURTA INSVictoria Adam, Matt Ager, Laura Bygrave, Dan Davis, Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Bruce McLean, Ian Monroe, Mary Wintour

“Either those curtains go, or I do.”

Oscar Wilde

This exhibition explores how the arrangement of personal interior space can reflect our attitudes to the shared social construction of civility in the exterior world. The interior of a home surpasses the concept of it being merely a dwelling space, as we arrange and augment interior space in a way that echoes our values. While public social events take place under the influence of the spatial architectonics ascribed by a third party, the home is a curated realm where smaller and more direct social gatherings are inherently dominated by the individual.

While the mid-twentieth century brought with it a burgeoning sense of modernist optimism, which coincided with an aspirational conceit, today sees a more fragmented schema in regards to the value of interior. From the urban luxury high-rise, to gated communities, to ‘poor doors’, properties are now bought and sold based on 3D computer renderings years before being built. What does this say of our current notion of the home? Is the last bastion or fortress of individual civility also an illusion, does emphasis on the virtual also cause our perception of our own space to become virtual?

“And come to think of it, isn’t this world we live in itself like a giant model room? We come in, sit down, have a cup of tea, and when the time comes we say thank you and leave. All the furniture is fake. Even the moon hanging in the window may be made of paper.”

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

Either Those Curtains explores an artistic response to interior space as the true central point of individual freedom, both in the physical sense of a body in a space, and cognitive inner space. To illustrate how we can use these spaces to comply with systemic conformity or create auxiliary logics and perceptual alternatives.

EXHIBITIONFriday 13th Mayto Saturday 18th June

EITHER THOSE CURTAINSVictoria Adam, Matt Ager, Laura Bygrave, Dan Davis, Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Bruce McLean, Ian Monroe, Mary Wintour



NOT ME BUT MEVictoria Adam2016Ciment Fondu, liquid soap, glazed ceramic, crisp packet, and resin8 x 57 x 31 cm


Foreground:FRESHWATER OFFICE-CHICVictoria Adam2016Aluminium foil tray, card, jesmonite, graphite powder, resin, and perspex22 x 32 x 26 cm

Background:SATINTAUPE STAYING-INVictoria Adam2016Aluminium foil tray, card, jesmonite, perspex, and resin14 x 32 x 26 cm


LAND DIRECTMatt Ager2016Toughened glass, bamboo, and door mats19 x 180 x 120 cm


LAND DIRECTMatt Ager2016Toughened glass, bamboo, and door mats19 x 180 x 120 cm


MADE IN PORTUGALMatt Ager2015MDF, wallpaper and ceramic56 x 120 x 36 cm


ROCKWOOD GRANDMatt Ager2016Toughened glass, bamboo, and door mats34 x 140 x 80 cm


OGMIOSlaura Bygrave2015 Oil on canvas 130.5 x 150 cm


ANCIENTSlaura Bygrave2015 Oil on canvas 126 x 160 cm


THE VAPOUR WAVEDan Davis2016Oil on canvas160 x 130 cm


BEVERLY’S PILLSDan Davis2015Oil on canvas130 x 120 cm


GOODBYE CURTAINSAsmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen2016Oil on canvas30 x 40 cm


PUBLIC TRANSPARENCYAsmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen2016Oil on canvas30 x 40 cm


SECRET CORNERAsmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen2016Oil on canvas40 x 30 cm


UNTITLEDBruce McLean2013Oil, acrylic, and pencil on canvas100 x 132 cm


UNTITLEDBruce McLean2013Oil, acrylic, and chalk on canvas90 x 65 cm


CHANGING ROOMBruce McLean2013Pencil, acrylic, and collage on paper76 x 102 cm


JAMES (ACCOUNTS)Ian Monroe2016Carpet, aluminium, vinyl, Alupanel, and MDF174 x 101 x 76 cm


BELLA (COMPLIANCE)Ian Monroe2016Carpet, aluminium, map pins, brass, vinyl, and MDF127 x 87 x 60 cm


THE EAGERNESS OF OBJECTSMary Wintour2014Oil and collage on card77.5 x 112 cm


A CERTAIN ORDERLINESSMary Wintour2015Acrylic and collage on paper33 x 23 cm


LITERAL DRIFTMary Wintour2014Acrylic and collage on paper33.2 x 34.7 cm

CONTACT [email protected]+44(0)20 7436 8050

OPENING TIMESWednesday - Saturday12 - 6pm(or by appointment)

VISIT US 158 New Cavendish StLondonW1W 6YW

Victoria Adam, b. 1983, Somerset, UK. Lives and works in London. Graduated from Royal Academy Schools, London, in 2015. Exhibitions include: Zabludowicz Invites solo (forthcoming), London (2016), ‘Leks’ solo, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam (2016), ‘Concrete Matters’, Bank Space Gallery, London (2016), ‘Joel Wyllie & Victoria Adam’, Kennington Space, London (2015), and ‘BB#8: Dawdle’, Space, London (2013)

Matt Ager, b. 1985, St Albans, UK. Lives and works in London. Graduated from Royal Academy Schools, London, in 2015. Exhibitions include: ‘Sunday School #11’ solo, DAM Projects, London Sheer Like, Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Belgium (2015), ‘Suzuki Montage’ solo, Space in Between, London (2014), ‘Classic Poncho’ solo, The China Shop, Oxford (2013), ‘Is it Heavy or Is it Light’, Assembly Point, London (2016), ‘Premiums’, Royal Academy Schools, London (2014), and ‘Artist Make Pub Signs/GROUP SHOW’, Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Space in Between, London Open Cube, White Cube, London (2013)

Laura Bygrave, b.1984, Norwich, UK. Lives and works in Norfolk and Amsterdam. Graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2010. Exhibitions include: ‘Demolition Derby’, FOLD Gallery, London (2015), ‘Limbo Associate Members’ Show 2014’ selected by Bob and Roberta Smith and Sarah Martin, Limbo, Margate, ‘Ride The Judd, Act II: ‘Start by Stirring’’, Hardy Tree Gallery, London and ‘Creekside Open’ selected by Paul Noble, APT Gallery, London.

Dan Davis, b. 1978, Indiana, USA. Lives and works in London. Graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art (MA), London, in 2004. Exhibitions include: ‘ArtWorks Open 2015’, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London (2015), ‘Summer Mix’, Turps Gallery, London (2015), ‘DKUK’, Ancient and Modern, London, (2013), and ‘Octave’, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2012). Awards include: The Celeste Painting Prize (2006)

Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, b. 1977, Aeroe, DK. Lives and works in Berlin. Graduated from Royal Academy of Fine Arts (MFA), Copenhagen, in 2009. Exhibitions include: ‘New Buildings’ solo (with Jesper Rasmussen), Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus (2016), ‘The Infinity Complex’ solo, Galleri Kant, Copenhagen (2014), ‘Approximations’ solo, Charlottenburg Amtsgericht, Berlin (2013), ‘50x50x50’, Kastrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen (2016), and ‘Picture Poking Pulling’, Nissen Contemporary, Copenhagen (2015). Collections include: Copenhagen City Counsil, Denmark

Ian Monroe, b. 1972, Cooperstown, New York. Lives and works in London. Graduated from Goldsmiths College (MA), University of London, in 2002. Exhibitions include: ‘And Also The View’ solo, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid (2012), ‘Currents 105’ solo, Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis (2011), ‘The Instantaneous Everything’ solo, Haunch of Venison, Berlin (2008), ‘Out of the Darkness’, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (2015), ‘Existencias’, Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Castilla Y Leon, Leon, Spain (2007), and ‘Edge of the Real’, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2004). Collections include: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, the Saatchi Collection, London

Bruce McLean, b. 1944, Glasgow, UK. Lives and works in London. Graduated from St Martin’s School of Art, London, in 1965. Exhibitions include: GOMA, solo, Brisbane (2016), Tate Gallery, solo, London (1985), Whitechapel Art Gallery, solo, London (1983), Modern Art Gallerie, solo, Vienna (1982), ‘Early Works 1967-1975’ solo, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1975), ‘King for a Day’ solo, Tate Gallery, London (1972), ‘Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979’, Tate Britain, London (2016), ‘Out of Action; Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1997), ‘Berlinart 1961-1987’, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1987), ‘Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980s’, British Council and Musee d’Art Moderne, Brussels (1987), New Art, Tate Gallery, London (1983). Performances include: ‘A Ball is not Dancing School’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1988), ‘Simple Manners and Physical Violence’, Tate Gallery, London (1985). Collections include: The British Council, Galerie Gmyrek, Dusseldorf, National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Tate Gallery, London, South Bank Centre, London, Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Mary Wintour, b.1988, London, UK. Lives and works in London. Graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2010. Exhibitions include: ‘I Thought You Knew’, joint show with Emmie McLuskey, Intermedia Gallery, CCA,Glasgow (2016), ‘The Other Side’, Group Show, Chelsea Art’s Club, London (2015), ‘Curated by Paul Smith and Friends’, Albemarle St, London (2014), ‘Premio Combat Prize,’ Museo Civico G. Fattori, Livorno, Italy (2014), ‘At Land’, Market Gallery, Glasgow (2013), and ‘New Contemporaries 2011’, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2011)

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EITHER THOSE CURTAINS - FOLD Gallery London...“Either those curtains go, or I do.” Oscar Wilde This exhibition explores how the arrangement of personal interior space can reflect