Turning Space
9th - 16th April 2026
‘Turning Space presents fickle contingents - an exhibition of new works by eva duerden that surface questions around how objects are categoriseds and take on significance,
Duerden’s artworks arrive with all the signs of design legitimacy, drawing on a fascination with fabrication techniques that allow objects to be mass-produced and brought into being.
Performing the desire of the art object, the sculptures line the walls and vie for your attention. Familiar materials such as synthetic veneers, cut glass panels and aluminium frames are bound up together in a series of new and enticing sculptural forms. They carry a logic that speaks to a history of determining what belongs inside and what remains outside, from soft fabric interiors to coated exteriors.
With these sensibilities held in a state of productive friction, function and cultural prestige slip between registers.
Onto this instability, a layer of decoration is deliberately placed. Deriving from typographic forms, these decorative motifs are found within the design of every artwork. They offer a faint promise of coherence, as though, in the artist’s words, they were focusing on the punctuation rather than the sentences.
Both difficult to contend with and unexpectedly generous, the artworks in 𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 surface questions around value through the materials and compositions themselves: some position themselves as static and trustworthy; others feel far more flippant and volatile.
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special thanks to Catriona Collins, Matthew Johnstone, Alfie Worrall , Turning Space, and wider Wrangle66 team for their generousity, contributions, and patience.
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photography : matthew johnstone
as part of the Catalyst arts Digital residency
August 2025
‘show-rooms’ the first iteration of a project by eva duerden for the Catalyst Digital Residency, using language from catalgoues, early games design and rudimentary website building. These rendered spaces are made for curiosity, furnished with artifacts and clues, like showing a new friend around your room, looking for the tells, the easter eggs for what you are about, what is the stand in for the person when they are absent.
‘show-rooms’ are scenes for ejd*props muses, using the format of early ‘point and click’ games to provoke searching and physical printed catalogues like Argos. Experimenting with techniques used in catalogues, these scenes are supposed to suggest the person, create a familiarity, but also conjure the feeling of newness, the novelty of your new promised favorite thing, almost in reach .
special thanks to Catalyst team for their generous support and invitation.
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BAS CS Gallery, Berlin.
Vernissage: 31st January 2025
1st - 8th February 2025
[tour·ist]
/ˈtʊə.rɪst/
- someone who visits a place for pleasure and intere
feeling of seeing something as though it were in a different key or hue, ability to approach your scene, transposed, seesawing between the naive and the knowledge of where you came from (comparison). mundanity in new conditions can become intriguing.
criteria is off kilter, awry, trying to get ‘it’ right with different coordinates, not sure what you should be doing, a novice, you also feel new. what is correct, what is the done thing?
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photography : matthew johnstone