Rupert Haines, Helen Lowe, Rummana Naqvi, Joanna Pawlowska

“what do they want from me” has been the pained question
of the caretaker for sometime.
The Caretaker is split. Administration is wearing thin and order cannot be maintained.
A life of attending where administration only shields the fact nothing exists behind it.
The void of the self lies in wait and M?m? plays a game with death.

Within this exhibition a textual landscape of confusion nestles among an undefined array
of objects all of which attempt to resist lineal and coherent readings. The contributing
artists aim for their creative authorship to slip away in this tale through a deliberate intent
to fictionalise the production of their works and to question the nature of collaboration.

Using the physical format of a white gallery space, the caretaker of this shifting tale regally
strides through a symbolic room of desolate corridors and the interior world. He senses an
extending, projecting hole from within, met with the threat of a beastly menace
in the exterior realm.

His only control over this scenario is the creation of a habitat into which he consumes and
occupies himself. He creates a series of systems in a bid for freedom to protect himself
from the tyranny of the world which initially imprison his desire...

For further information about the artists, please contact them directly

Rupert Haines: rupert1haines@hotmail.co.uk
Helen Lowe: helencamilla@gmail.com
Rummana Naqvi: Rummanabanana@gmail.com
Joanna Pawlowska: joannap@talk21.com

Caretaker:

the Life & Death of Mèmè, the Thing Outside & Other Curiosities