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Markus Bergström and Joe Nunn of Glass Hill have an approach that is founded on a general level of discomfort and en ever present uncertainty. A discomfort that comes from scales, fields and genres, both subscribed and prescibed. And an uncertainty that comes from having two heads and twice as many complexes. Their work to date has included an neo classicist mug and pine wood requiring two weeks of finishing. They have also designed furniture for a 400$ a night In on an island called Fogo and will one day turn an abandonned british pub into a local hero. Their work is often intentionally unfashionable in its approach and often their project's scope far exceed the clients brief.
For Brachfeld gallery, Glass Hill approached the project with a plurality of intent. For one, it is to be a show of new Glass Hill work, but it is also to act as an exercise in something they claim to enjoy-designing to be of service. In this case it is designed to be of service to the photography of Adrian Gaut. The show will be split in two parts: an initial "content-less" stage for FIAC that will contain nothing but the exhibition design itself, and then for Paris photo the work will finally arrive.
Tha glass Hill installation will occupy an intermediate scale between furniture and full scale architecture, a realm they explore at every opportunity. It is not much of a stretch of logic to expand the principles of furniture construction to that of a small building and likewise an interior space is itself built, but from an opposing direction. In this instance the structure "cleans" the space of all cavity and crevice, providing a pure and formless envelope. Meanwhile the gallery itself holds within a structure, built with a joiner logic, and expressly to be hidden, or at least take a passenger seat, from the main event.
A collection of seating objects will be scattered and huddled within the curved wall. In the first stage they will be conspiscious in their presence, in the second useful in their function. These studio pieces are for sale and are an extension of Glass Hill's previous works on form, surface and materiality.