16

16 brings together a group of works that consider the material and social conditions of fragmentation. The exhibition is titled after Hanna Rochereau’s imposing painting 16, which alongside a new sculptural installation, brings together research into both the archive and retail display as sites purposed for the containment of fragmentary data.

In Rochereau’s work, as for Peter Gallo, Aidan Duffy and Masaomi Yasunaga, the structural logic of fragmentation becomes a (dis)organising principle. Meticulously cut-and-pasted words from discarded newspaper stories disassemble and reconnect in Gallo’s discordant compositions, which emerge from and disrupt an engagement with the discipline of the grid. 

These constructions, somehow at once recognisable and unfamiliar, offer the artist a rhizomatic, decentralised approach to organising and interpreting the strangeness of our physical and immaterial surroundings. 

Rochereau’s archive remains as much concerned with the absence of information as by the presence of it. Together, the works in 16 reveal fragmentation as an ontology in which meaning and connection emerge precisely from deconstruction, rupture and disintegration.