Enrico David’s multiform practice derives from drawing and includes sculpture, painting and installation. Configurations of images and objects often invite the viewer into a fictional tableau, dramatising the encounter with the artwork as though it might be a piece of theatre.
This installation included two works. The central piece, Chicken Man Gong, represents a form of public sculpture which doubles as a ritualistic instrument. In the adjacent vitrine, a number of objects and images, both made and collected by the artist, represent the kind of informative, didactic sources associated with this mode of display, mimicking but deliberately not fulfilling the way in which museums display artwork alongside explanatory material.
The piece draws attention to the institutional nature of the space with its neutral, hard-wearing surface and uncovers its potential as a site for social ritual.
The project was curated by Clarrie Wallis.
