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Sam Porritt, Grist to the Mill (2016) exhibition photos

, 25 November 2016
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Sam Porritt presented solo exhibition Grist to the Mill at London’s VITRINE gallery, which ran from September 30 to November 12, 2016.

The Zürich-based artist’s kinetic installation, viewable at the Bermondsey Square window, combines sculpture and drawing using aluminium, motor, bearings, paint and pigment ink to explore ideas of growth and progress in a climate of economic uncertainty. A series of large interconnected cogs featuring Porritt’s signature faces — expressive and immediately drawn, endlessly turning towards each other — the work touches on the equally connected ideas of development in relation to people and their society.

Sam Porritt, Grist To The Mill (2016). Installation view. Photo by Jonathan Bassett. Image Courtesy of VITRINE, London.
Sam Porritt, Grist To The Mill (2016). Installation view. Photo by Jonathan Bassett. Image Courtesy of VITRINE, London.

An essay published in a book of Porritt’s drawings quotes Joanna Fiduccia‘s ‘The Swift Face’:

“The face is swift on two accounts: quick to announce itself in the world, and quick to change its aspect. Expressions flash up, flicker across, crash over the surface of the face like a wave.”**

Sam Porritt’s Grist to the Mill was on at London’s VITRINE gallery, running September 30 to November 12, 2016.

Header image: Sam Porritt, Grist To The Mill (2016). Installation view. Photo by Jonathan Bassett. Image Courtesy of VITRINE, London.

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'Grist to the Mill' Joanna Fiduccia Sam Porritt Vitrine Gallery
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