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EUQINOM Gallery is pleased to present Present Objects: an annual introductions exhibition, a group exhibition that brings together contemporary artists exploring the use of paper-based work in diverse ways. This is the inaugural presentation of what will become an annual exhibition of new artists’ work. Co-curated with Emily Lambert-Clements and Monique Deschaines, the exhibition includes works from artists Clare Strand, Lebohang Kganye, Liza Ambrossio, Rachel Phillips and Julia Goodman. Present Objects will be on view from July 13 - August 24, 2019 with an opening reception on July 13th from 6-8pm

On view is a set of nine unique polaroid photographs from the archive of British artist Clare Strand. The piece, Original Type 55 Polaroid from the Betterment Room: Devices For Measuring Achievement, is a study examining the visual identity and behaviour of the post industrial worker, taking as a starting point the photographic time and motion studies of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. In this new study, the blithe, the willing and the compliant are equipped with appropriate mechanism and attachments, set against grids and clocks to help the study of their productive capacity. The images have an uneasy stasis, signaling that the modern activities we now call work have become more mysterious and less quantifiable. The Cyclegraph series becomes an attempt to analyse and determine the trajectories of Strand’s own activity throughout the making of the work (she straps lights to her hands while taking pictures), in an effort to make the intangible, tangible - an exercise in absurdism hat nevertheless has its predetermined function - no matter how pointless.