08 October - 08 November 2003
35 Heddon Street, London W1
Andreas Slominski is best known for his elaborate traps - works which announce Slominski as a trickster and point to the ludic element running through his projects. Another common thread is the role of narrative; in many instances the object exhibited in the gallery is the culmination of an elaborate sequence of events.
Here, an electric stove runs off electricity that circumnavigates Heddon Street; cakes have been baked to represent the percentage result of trivial polls; sections of the gallery walls pasted with posters have been cut and revolved 180 degrees. Each element is presented in a different denomination: 7 posters, 12 cans of paint, 14 spokes of the wheel, 2 cakes. Slominski considers the relationship between figures and quantities from a variety of perspectives - as abstractions, as mathematical elements and as the components of communities and society as a whole.