M HKA Ensembles

Installation, 108 x 51 x 150 cm.

Collection: Courtesy of the artist, VI, VII, Oslo and Balice Hertling, Paris.

In a new installation Hawser allows seemingly arcane objects and images to speak of visibility, a notion often routinely associated with identity and identification. White plastic canisters printed with the logo of a maker of X-ray developer fluid – Velopex – are stacked on the floor of M HKA’s iconic circular space. On the curved wall there is a print of a large truck scanned for its contents: more stacked bottles, a pile of car tires, a suspended bicycle, a standing figure that looks like Venus from Milo. The scan was kindly provided by a company that wishes to remain unnamed, whose representatives Hawser recently met during the Counter Terror Expo at Olympia in London (www.counterterrorexpo.com). (AK)