Location
City Gallery, Wellington, New ZealandStart date
2018-08-10End date
2018-11-04Language
engResearch statement
Patrick Pound is an artist and academic rethinking ideas of curation and collection. He has worked with many Public Gallery and Museum collections, alongside his ever-growing collection-based artworks, rethinking how things might be found and made to hold ideas. Pound's research is increasingly focused on public gallery and museum exhibitions that rethink collection and display models and unpack how things might be found to hold and express ideas differently in gallery and museum contexts. The research and creative practice entail positioning the collection as a medium. This research also investigates new methods of interconnecting collection works using internet search methods as an organizing system for finding, ordering and displaying collections as artworks. The technique of the intersecting matrix hang, and the performative search engine generating internet artworks is a new development in curatorial methodology and thinking, which asks questions of our understandings of sorting and storing and searching information in the internet age, pressing us to rethink museum models of collection and display. In 2018 Patrick Pound on Reflection was installed on the entire top floor of the City Gallery Wellington. This vast exhibition was displayed as a palindrome of things. The galleries were rebuilt as a symmetrical machine. Pound combined 86 artworks and museum objects from the National Collections of Te Papa with thousands of his own. He put to the test how collections of photographs and objects might be found and made to hold ideas differently as if on a dare. The exhibition featured collection based artworks, which posed the collection as a medium rethinking our relationships with things, and relationships between things. The exhibition featured 'The Museum of Pointing', examples of air heading left and then right through objects and images and numerous collection palindromes, all of which put to the test how unexpected ideas can be generated through objects.Publication classification
JC2 Curated Exhibition or Event – Exhibition/EventScale
NTRO MajorExtent
Solo exhibitionEditor/Contributor(s)
Lister AEvent
Patrick Pound: On Reflection. Exhibition (2018 : City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand)Publisher
City Gallery, Wellington in partneship with Te papa Tongarewa Museum and National Gallery of New ZealandPlace of publication
Wellington, New Zeland
