"NOTHING NEVER NOT LASTS"
Exhibition
Exhibition
In the churning chaos of time, what is lost and what remains? What do we discard and what do we hold onto and protect? In his new body of work ‘Nothing Never Lasts’ exhibiting at Oigåll Projects in September, artist and sculptor Robert Hague renders the ravages and victories of time through a series of steel sculptures, examining the way time and atmosphere corrodes and conversely immortalises the things we value - as individuals and as a culture at large.
Exploring our relationship with history and hierarchy through physical conceptualisations of entropy and decay, Hague positions his audience to encounter contemporary relics that feel salvaged, things belonging to time in the immediate sense, reconfigured as timeless artifacts with lasting impact.
Working entirely with stainless steel to craft these extraordinary impressive sculptures, Hague also employs a material language to communicate ideas of strength, tension and fragility, playing with our expectations of form and what could be considered ‘classic’. Ultimately, this body of work invites us to consider the meaning we ascribe to things and our motivations and fears as humans; creatures subject to mortality and yet capable somehow of striving towards the immortal in spite of our inevitable fate.
Photography by;
Annika Kafcaloudis
