25 Oct—7 Dec 1996
Duke Street

For his show, Angus Fairhurst exhibited four paintings that come from three related but distinct series, entitled respectively: Low Expectations (1996), Lower Expectations (1996), and Lowest Expectations (1996). All of the works in these series started as visuals for the CDs w...

13 Sep—19 Oct 1996
Duke Street

Lari Pittman describes how his highly decorated paintings operate within what he calls ‘bittersweet time,’ a state in which events weave together in dense webs, and from which he constructs intimate and theatrical scenes charged with emotional, political and philosophical mean...

5 Jul—7 Sep 1996
Duke Street

Jack Pierson is best known for his melancholic photographs, vaporous drawings and ‘word pieces’ formed from old signage that ‘document the disaster inherent in the quest for glamour.’ At the gallery, Pierson exhibited two large ‘photo-paintings’ that seemed to bathe the galler...

31 May—29 Jun 1996
Duke Street

Suchan Kinoshita’s installation Stuff (1995), focused on a by-product of our cleaning rituals: human detritus. Kinoshita collected her raw material from used vacuum bags given to her by acquaintances and, having transformed the gallery into a makeshift laboratory, subjected it...

19 Apr—25 May 1996
Duke Street

For his exhibition, Cerith Wyn Evans created an installation entitled, Inverse, Reverse, Perverse (1996), that consisted of a large concave mirror hung on the gallery wall. The mirror inverts and radically distorts the viewer’s reflection, producing a series of disturbing self...

8 Mar—13 Apr 1996
Duke Street

Sarah Morris is interested in ‘finding the most direct way of having a conversation with the viewer.’ Although her work employs a highly-charged, reductive aesthetic that triggers multiple associations, it also suggests narratives steeped in celluloid Americana and fast, urban...

26 Jan—24 Feb 1996
Duke Street

The American artist Clay Ketter originally supplemented his income working in the construction industry, an experience that was to have a major influence on his artwork. Ketter appropriates and customises modular, prefabricated kitchen units—the kind we are used to assembling ...

1 Dec—20 Jan 1996
Duke Street

Sam Taylor-Wood showed Travesty of a Mockery (1995), a 10 minute film that depicts a man and a woman having an argument. This domestic drama is enacted simultaneously on two separate projected screens—the man’s space is described by a chair standing against a blank wall, the...

20 Oct—25 Nov 1995
Duke Street

The work of Belgian artist Patrick van Caeckenbergh presents images of a fantastical world. Van Caeckenbergh adopts the persona of an eccentric, obsessive anthropologist, making sculptures and collages that offer a distinctly individual view of the world, and reveal the artist...

15 Sep—14 Oct 1995
Duke Street

To make her work, Colombian-born artist Doris Salcedo salvages mundane, domestic items—such as pieces of clothing and furniture—and combines them with organic materials to form dysfunctional objects that retain poignant traces of their former use. At White Cube, Salcedo presen...

7 Jul—9 Sep 1995
Duke Street

Marc Quinn exhibited Blind Leading the Blind (1995), a life-size three-quarter cast of his own body. This sculpture is one of a series of pieces based on the seven deadly sins, entitled ‘Emotional Detox’, in which contorted torsos represent heightened states of both physical a...

19 May—1 Jul 1995
Duke Street

In Damien Hirst’s Still (1995), a clinical vitrine made from glass, mirror and steel displayed a series of surgical instruments. The glinting scalpels, forceps, retractors and clamps, arranged on a series of shelves, with surgical, non-hierarchical precision, reflect the aesth...