POV: You are Beans: Dickon Drury

Kendall Koppe and Seventeen are pleased to announce Dickon Drury's third and first solo exhibition with the galleries respectively.

 

The two exhibitions, The Preceding Cart and POV: You are Beans exist as two distinct bodies of new work, exhibited concurrently. In the spirit of exchange, collaboration and expanded dialogue between galleries and artists - the exhibition takes place at Seventeen, London.

 

POV: You are Beans

 

This exhibition can be seen as a contemporary iteration of 'kitchen sink' painting described by David Sylvester in 1954 as including 'everything but the kitchen sink - the kitchen sink too.' Drury implements the strategy of the point of view meme, where a first person camera position allows a video to show a given situation from the viewer's perspective. Here the screen of the microwave replaces the screen of the phone, framing the kitchen interior which is also partially disrupted by the familiar grid of dots across the glass. Through our recasting as inanimate foodstuff Drury connects to the idea that a solution to contemporary existential anxieties can be found through greater objectivity. Perhaps from the revolving perspective of the beans in our microwave we find relief in the certainty of that objectivity.

 

POV: You are Beans

POV: You are Peas

POV: You are Macaroni Cheese

POV: You are Popcorn

POV: You are Potato

POV: You are Tomato Soup

POV: You are Egg Fried Rice

POV: You are Porridge

POV: You are Spaghetti Hoops