Silent agreements
12 February - 29 February 2020
Megan Brady and Ed Ritchie
RM Gallery & Project Space
Tāmaki Makaurau
Aotearoa, NZ
Silent agreements, 2020. Newsprint, glue, dowel, air-dry clay. Installation view (detail).
Drawn from a comfortable intuition that intertwines between a personal and collaborative friendship, Ed Ritchie and Megan Brady present new work exploring an overlap between a poetic aesthetic and a performative engagement within a space.
Silent agreements deals directly with newly divided space M of RM focusing on the natural light which filters through the large window panes. Significantly lowering the highest point of the gallery to increase one’s ability to think in a contemplative manner, Ritchie and Brady have constructed a handmade paper ceiling filling the space above us. The soft ceiling acts as a room divider, encouraging those within the gallery to speak and move softly, calmly while allowing one viewer at a time to delicately observe the space above the constructed ceiling.
Soft ceilings allude to temporary settings. Much like being within a tent, marquee or fort, they embody a strange mix of celebration and imagination. Temporary architectures have a certain way of expanding our treatment of space; to our arrangements and our curiosities.
Silent agreements, 2020. Newsprint, glue, dowel, air-dry clay, paint on board. Installation view (detail).
Silent agreements, 2020. Newsprint, glue, dowel, air-dry clay. Installation view (detail).
Silent agreements, 2020. Paint on board. Installation view (detail).
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