That the inversion was imperfect;
That ellipse was frequent;
That euphony was a preoccupation;
That spontaneity was perhaps not absent;
That there was perhaps more than a reversal of discourse;
That the thought was perhaps inverted.
Samuel Beckett, WATT
The Gerald Moore Gallery is pleased to present On the Calculation of Volume, an exhibition with works selected by David Cyrus Smith by artists Tom Chamberlain, Howard Dyke, Jane Harris, Rhian Harris-Mussi, Gabriel Hartley, Vanessa Jackson, Anna Liber Lewis, Sarah McNulty, Tim Renshaw, Neal Rock, Claudia Sarnthein, David Cyrus Smith and Lee Trimming from Saturday 6th September to Saturday 4th October 2025.
The private view will be on Thursday 4th September from 6 to 8pm.
There is something provocative about the insistence on remaining abstract. According to Jan Verwoert, Abstractness is the opposite of information; it doesn’t narrate and confess, it resists. When the inclination is towards providing and processing information in constant circulation, the content of abstraction can be neither instantaneously nor ever fully actualised. True abstraction creates a singular experience of suspended meaning where you see things for an instant, in and for themselves; singular, particular, irreplaceable, and un-exchangeable.*
On The Calculation of Volume takes its title from the series of novels by Solvej Balle, in which the protagonist Tara Selter, finds herself caught in a single day, the 18th of November, that repeats itself over and over. She comes to know the shape of the day through its repetitions and rhythms. Patterns form, events reoccur and loop- from a piece of bread falling from a plate every morning, a blackbird breaking into song, or the timing of a rain shower. Over time, these repetitions gradually start to shift and fall in and out of sequence. In some instances, objects and events drop away altogether, leaving tenuous, yet indelible traces that sit under the surface of the day.
On The Calculation of Volume brings together thirteen abstract artists whose works engage with forms of image-making that individually reveal themselves as types of reality. These are works that come out of an attentiveness to the world and carry a sensibility and way of being present in it.
*Jan Verwoert, The Beauty and Politics of Latency: On the Work of Tomma Abts
The exhibition is open to the public on Saturdays from 10am to 4pm and by appointment.
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