Several Small Motors
2025
Solo exhibition at Pallas Projects, Dublin
Several Small Motors is an exhibition featuring sequences of works that overlap in their concerns, tracing a number of thematic vectors which circle one another, eclipsing or intersecting so that the exhibition takes on the form of something like a game, a puzzle, or rebus which is open to multiple, potentially contradictory, readings or interpretations.
Throughout the course of the exhibition, components will be added, altered, or removed on different days. Sliders will be turned on or off, while consoles (and the objects for which they serve as plinths) will be added to or removed from the exhibition space. In this way, the exhibition is not an entirely stable entity, but rather something that shifts and changes. Component parts of the exhibition have ‘shifts’, and will participate in the exhibition in ways similar to how precarious or casual workers participate in the functioning of a business.
The text work from which the exhibition takes its title can be found here.
A Brief History of Boring Tools, the performance produced with Isadora Epstein to accompany the exhibition, is viewable here.
Photo credit: Serhii Shapoval