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Elbow-room in the universe

22 - 25 January, 2020

Amy Howden-Chapman, Fiona Williams, Sholto Buck, val Smith, Sonya Lacey.

Curated by Victoria Wynne-Jones

Enjoy Contemporary Art Space

Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara, New Zealand

Elbow room in the universe, 2020, installation view, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space

Elbow room in the universe, 2020, installation view, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space

Sholto Buck, For a rainbow to be seen, the sun must be behind an observer who is facing falling rain live performance, 22 January 2020

Amy Howden-Chapman, Have you ever felt overwhelmed? live performance and installation, 23 January 2020

Amy Howden-Chapman, Have you ever felt overwhelmed? live performance and installation, 23 January 2020

val smith, sexes on site – with light and air

live performance, 24 January 2020

val smith, sexes on site – with light and air

live performance, 24 January 2020

Fiona Williams, Untitled (Meredith's painting), 2020,

alkyd oil on aluminium, 400 x 600 mm

Fiona Williams, Untitled (where the cat lay II), 2018

alkyd oil on aluminium, 400 x 600 mm

Fiona Williams, Untitled, 2018, Untitled, 2018

alkyd oil on aluminium, varnished, 135 x 192 mm

Fiona Williams, Untitled, 2018

alkyd oil on aluminium, 400 x 300mm

Sonya Lacey, New light wedge fiction

scripted performance and installation, 25 January 2020

Sonya Lacey, New light wedge fiction

scripted performance and installation, 25 January 2020

Images courtesy of Cheska Brown and Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.

This exhibition involved one performance per day over one week, including a group of paintings on aluminium placed on the first day for the duration of the show. The paintings affected and were affected by their environment and by happenings in the space.