Uncertainty – the inability to come to a final conclusion – is inherently connected to hope, imagination, wonder and creativity. We don’t know for sure; we cannot have a conclusive, definitive answer – so we just have to hope, imagine, wonder and experiment. In this sense, uncertainty is the human condition, and it seems clear that all our attempts to escape it lead to control and tyranny. Abstraction, on the other hand, reminds us that lack of control and uncertainty are actually tantamount to freedom, and that our exercise of that freedom is a leap of faith.

The works in this exhibition are all materialised examples of this leap into uncertain and inconclusive terrain, in the face of all our contemporary control mechanisms and the vanities that underlie them.