Past
Ben Lotka, Floor Objects
Leo Brooks, Fireworks
Ben Lotka, Low Relief
Nothing Holds
2 May - 7 June 2025
Opening Friday 2 May 5-9:30pm
5U Space is pleased to announce its fourth exhibition, Celia Jailor, Nothing Holds. The collection of hand-woven baskets is the artist’s first presentation at the gallery.
The problem of course is that everything is invisible, or tries to be. Everything hides its logic. But the good thing is that when something hides, it can't help but give clues. Everyone lies, yes, but there is not a liar on earth who doesn't secretly want to be caught.
It’s all wireless now, but wire is everywhere. Wire is overflowing from the storeroom closet at work, it's burrowing under every sidewalk and road. You see wire day in and day out, maybe the last thing you see before sleep is wire, when you plug in your phone and click off your lamp. It hogtied the buildings, it traversed the sea.
The new-build goes up overnight, you barely even see the guys working on it, it looks straight from the computer rendering, copy-paste. But this can't be true because if you look down you see coils of rope, and the cut-off ends of trimmed PVC pipe, and the crushed paper boxes of interior grade screws.
You stand on the edge of the Atlantic ocean, on a pristine national preserve in midwinter. But the storm has blown up yards of mooring rope, bilge pump hose, lobster trap clutches. So there are people out there, just out of sight, working overtime to haul out fish and freeze them and sell them. You just can't see it, you can only see this beautiful windy beach.
Okay so, money still runs through the oceans, people still put up the buildings, and information still travels over unhollerable distances through miles of copper wire.
Celia Jailer
April 2025