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MASLEN & MEHRA

Impermanent Collection

8th Sept - 6th Oct 2012 


Occupy My Time Gallery www.occupymytimearts.yolasite.com
Enclave 9 Resolution Way Deptford London SE8 4NT Tuesday-Saturday.10.00-17.30pm
For press images and further details please contact: Sue Cohen suecohen@ntlworld.com


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permanent Collection (Summer Of Discontent)
2012  35cm x 35cm x 5cm
sculpture: wire, paper-mache, plaster and archival photographic print

shelf: recycled wood
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‘Archaeology is perhaps the best tool we have for looking ahead, because it provides a deep reading of the direction and momentum of our course through time: what we are, where we have come from, and therefore where we are most likely to be going.’  Excerpt from A Short History Of Progress by Ronald Wright

The collaborative artists MASLEN & MEHRA will be showing work from their new series based on 3 years research in museums across the globe. Impermanent Collection comprises a series of photo-sculptures and documented temporary installations based on historical and contemporary objects found in museums. Multiple visits to the Victoria & Albert and British Museums, London; the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Archaeological Museum, the Turkish and Islamic Art Museum, Istanbul; and the Asian Museum of Civilization in Singapore have resulted in the study and documentation of particular objects. Historical, cultural, political, technological, environmental and scientific references, alongside themes of natural history, all inform this work. References which allude to a conflicted existence on earth faced by cultures today: On one hand an appreciation for the importance of the natural world for our existence and on the other an unsustainable rate of consumption. These transformed museum objects offer some disturbing thoughts about the legacy of current generations. They suggest a connection between civilizations ‘progress’ and the unsustainable structures we impose to gain it. At the same time the Impermanent Collection series imbues optimism: Imagery which celebrates diverse cultures and creativity with the hope current and future generations will learn from the past.

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Impermanent Collection (Head of Buddha, Afghanistan AD 400-500)
2012  53 x 45cm
Durst lambda, mixed media installation documented with a medium format film camera



Impermanent Collection (Noh Mask, Edo period)
 2011 53 x 45cm
Durst lambda, mixed media installation documented with a medium format film camera

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Impermanent Collection (French 18thC)
2011
sculpture: wire, paper-mache, plaster and archival photographic print

plinth: recycled wood
Link to shoe sculpture details
Works by MASLEN & MEHRA are included in collections such as Tattinger Switzerland, Art Es Collecion Madrid, numerous international private collections and more recently the Altered Landscape Collection, Nevada Museum of Art which includes artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, Edward Burtynsky, Amy Stein, David Maisel, and Fandra Chang. Solo exhibitions have been staged in New York, London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Dubai, Istanbul, Sydney and Berlin. A monograph titled MIRRORED is dedicated to two major series of work, the Mirrored and Native series and was published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg with support from the Arts Council Of England with texts by art historian Edward Lucie-Smith and Eugen Blume, curator at the Hamburger Bahnoff Museum Berlin. In 2011 there was a solo presentation of work from these two series for the Scotiabank CONTACT International Photo Festival, Toronto and in addition a commissioned public installation of lightboxes was commissioned for Halifax Ferry Terminal. A solo exhibition for Art Month Sydney took place at Conny Dietzschold Gallery in March 2012.

OCCUPY MY TIME was founded in 2006 by Sue Cohen an artist, curator and  educator. This is the first permanent gallery space for OCCUPY MY TIME which has been  presenting  exciting and intriguing visual arts events in interesting spaces. These spaces were often outside the traditional gallery space and interacted directly with the audience through its choice of fascinating environments.


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Impermanent Collection (Vivienne Westwood)
 2011 53 x 45cm
Durst lambda, mixed media installation documented with a medium format film camera




Impermanent Collection (Victorian Boot)
2011  80cm tall
sculpture: wire, paper-mache, plaster and archival photographic print

plinth: recycled wood


Impermanent Collection (Roman, 2nd Century)
 2011 53 x 45cm
Durst lambda, mixed media installation documented
with a medium format film camera

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Impermanent Collection (Head Of Youthful Male Pakistan 4th-5thC)
2011 50cm tall
 sculpture: wire, paper-mache, plaster and archival photographic print

plinth: recycled wood


Photo-sculptures: wire, paper-mache, plaster and archival photographic print
plinths: recycled wood
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Impermanent Collection (La Négresse, Pourquoi! Naître esclave? J.B Carpeaux 1872)
2011 140 X 120cm
Durst lambda, mixed media installation documented with a medium format film camera

Impermanent Collection (Profits & Poisons)
2012  45cm x 45cm x 5cm
sculpture: wire, paper-mache, plaster and archival photographic print

shelf: recycled wood
Link to further plate sculptures


Impermanent Collection ( Head Of Bodhisattva Afghanistan 4th -5th Century)
2011
 sculpture: wire, paper-mache, plaster and archival photographic print

plinth: recycled wood


Impermanent Collection (Devotion)

2012  45cm x 45cm x 5cm
sculpture: wire, paper-mache, plaster and archival photo
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Impermanent Collection (Food Futures)
2012  45cm x 45cm x 5cm
sculpture: wire, paper-mache, plaster and archival photo

Link to further plate sculptures