DRYSTOCK/ TRAPDOOR - Jedediah Caesar Sculpture at The Bomb Factory Archway

The Bomb Factory Archway is hosting an event by Jedediah Caesar which will see a number of large-scale sculptural works installed for one day before being split into parts and handed over to invited custodian-guardians. Organised by Henry Coleman.

“I had an artwork that was outside London that was offered back to me. This was an unusual offer and after some consideration I decided I would like this work to take on a new life. 

The work is called “Drystock” and it consists of 29 panels of white polyester resin, embedded with remnants of various fabrication shops. The panels were cut from a single block and were displayed on a wall stacked in groups of four and in sequence. This installation was between a mural and a very large structural film.  

My hope is that 29 people will each take one of the panels to live with. Whoever takes a panel will own it and will receive a document to that effect. The panels will be individual works, but also a single work collectively owned. I recognize that I am asking people to take responsibility for this work, for my work, but I am hoping that the work freely given will be an equal exchange. I’ll come the UK to distribute the work to various participants on May 15 & 16.” Jedediah Caesar.

Jedediah Caesar is an artist, curator and educator based in Los Angeles, CA. For more than two decades his work has explored landscapes as illustrative sites that become complex civic space through performative and structural interventions. His solo exhibitions have been presented at Locust Projects, Miami, FL (2015): LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (2013); DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA (2012), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2011) and Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2007). Caesar’s work has been in group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hans Erni Museum, Lucerne, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI and Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. His work has been extensively reviewed in publications including art agenda, Frieze, Art Papers, Princeton Architectural Press, Sculpture Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, Art Forum and Mousse among others.

LOCATION: Unit 2, Boothby Road, N19 4AJ

DATES: 15th - 16th May

TIMES: Thurs May 15th, 12-8 pm

Work dispersed May 16, 5-8 pm