Spoil exposes the pavements layers of the floor we walk on elevated by a rebar exoskeleton.
The man-made tiles, bricks and cement press the London Clay into a stone base, changing throughout the exhibition: the clay dries, shrinks, solidifies, cracks, breaks to finally stabilise.
The London Clay that once was used to make bricks to build the city, it’s now considered waste. Covering a great geological layer of the city, its natural quality of changing in volume with humidity makes it a big impediment to build the city upwards.
Spoil (I&II) stand as a small building by themself named after the material removed when digging a foundation: they portray the geological layers of the city, which by their own creation are now probably out of date.
SPOIL I
Kinetic sculpture.
Stones, London Clay, discarded bricks and tiles.
98 x 48 cm. (H x D)
2024
Photo by Lola Buades, London Guts (exhibition view), 2024, The Stone Space, London.
SPOIL II
Kinetic sculpture.
Stones, London Clay, discarded rebar, bricks and tiles from various construction sites.
56’5 x 33 cm. (H x D)
2024
Photo by Lola Buades, London Guts (exhibition view), 2024, The Stone Space, London.
Spoil I (photo detail), London Guts, 2024, The Stone Space, London.
Photo by Lola Buades.
Spoil I (photo detail), London Guts, 2024, The Stone Space, London.
Spoil II (photo detail), London Guts, 2024, The Stone Space, London.
Photo by Lola Buades.
Spoil I & II at London Guts (exhibition view), 2024, The Stone Space, London.