Overview
This Must Be The Place is a solo show by John Brady exploring ideas of space, scale and materials.
‘On flying into a city at night, one gets a sense of a very small and vulnerable organism sprawling over hills and mountains, its filament roads stretching out to other organisms. The overall sensation is one of diminished scale. However, on entering the city this scale changes as it reveals its components, complexity and your relation to its size is revealed. Buildings act as centres of activity rising into the sky or burrowing underground. Streets and subways connect and divide these locations in equal measure, while internet, electrical cable, water and sewage provide energy and waste disposal for the entity. When one leaves the city the roads that divided the space between buildings become a conduit to the next town, village, home or farm building. In the country the empty space between buildings dominates your experience. The collective regularity and density of buildings in the city yield to the countryside and its empty irregular space.
In the exhibition, ‘This Must Be the Place’ you are invited you to explore some of these ideas of space, scale and materials and make your own connections.’
Curated by Vanessa Jordan.
