M HKA Ensembles

° 1985

Born in United Kingdom, lives in London (United Kingdom).

Eloise Hawser’s work might be characterised as ‘sculpture’. She is concerned with three-dimensional objects and, in particular, with the various protocols and processes that must be mastered to make them. She often uses industrial methods, which address specific needs with maximum efficiency, to produce forms that are almost obsessively non-functional and certainly don’t make much common sense. Is there, in fact, something quintessentially ‘English’ about this quiet subversion of rationalism and pragmatism?

Hawser’s works in this exhibition also prompt another question. Do her manufactured objects possess a subjectivity of their own? It is almost as if the thinking she applies to them has made them capable of expressing their own thoughts.(AK)

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