ZEROdestination
A conversation about public
and private spaces in Leeds
May 10 – June 6 2005

Asking how we build our boundaries in spaces, ZEROdestination is an exhibition of work made by six artists of the Leeds Sculpture Workshop who employ the concept of revelation to make public the modes we use to disclose or mask ourselves to the rest of the world.

Diverging in site and subject, the works of artists Matthew Bertola, Georgina Hope, Glen Johnson, Alan Pergusey, Philip Rhami, Sarah Spanton, Antonia Stowe, and Paula Tod, unite to form and engage in a visual conversation between public and private spaces, focusing on the blurred and inevitably multi-explicable notion of the contrasting intimacy and distance of these states. Each artist contemplates our limits, introducing their intentions into the conventional realm of the gallery, which, from here, weave themselves through the illimitable spaces of the metropolis. 

Hosted by Brahm Gallery, the nucleus, reference point and inner fraction of this journey, ZEROdestination presents work whose elements spread wider than the margins of the gallery walls. Multi-sited and multimedia, the project has unlimited starting and finishing posts, as it meanders and merges through the public and private spaces of the city, disclosing through signs our next steps. From each work, we are informed, suggested to, pushed, encouraged, thrown, coaxed, and intrigued, into making our journey – desiring to unearth the mystery.

Promoting interaction, each site engages with the next, and then back to the gallery, from where purpose is uncovered and discovered; a complete journey can only be made by travelling to each work in situ and determining the concept by decoding the material in the gallery exhibition. Yet, there is no true and right way to discover the work – this is a process that works as well in reverse, or chaos, as it does in order. The unsuspected elements we stumble upon are equally as captivating as those we seek out, developing new methods of practice, new audiences, and new ways of seeing, beyond the traditional situation.