During Covid, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, conceived a digital, "daily exhibition of artworks that no one will see, of works that will never be together.
Under a title borrowed (and slightly mistranslated) from
Balzac’s Le Chef-d’oevre Inconnu Ingleby presents a
series of interconnected images, posted daily in an
exhibition that isn’t an exhibition.
The sequence began on Monday 13th April and will
continue until the gallery is able to resume its normal
programme, publishing a new work daily in a rolling
sequence, with every selection being the work of an artist
who has taken part in some aspect of the gallery’s more
conventional exhibition programme over the past 22 years.
It is in effect be a tribute to all of our favourite things.
The works appear each week day via our website and
instagram and every Friday an email summarises the
previous five days sequence, and releases a newly
commissioned film from the studio of one of the artists
featured that week." (Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh)
Images taken from one of our sculptural installations (including a singular detail taken from inside a part of 'Enter Love and Enter Death', SMITH/STEWART in the catalogue) were shown in their own right in this entirely new context / digital space. Therefore operating on their own terms, as images, in a completely different way and as our component part of a new 'impossible' exhibition made up of many contributions/works from numerous artists.
The material experience of the original installation work shifted both actually and imaginatively, transformed into the body of a new piece, within a particular digital realm, ie: as one part of a series of interconnected images of works that could not possibly be together physically.
This conceptual online show was accompanied by a real life hard copy publication of the same title, printed in an edition of 750 copies. ISBN 978-0-9931551-85. December 2020.
