The Salt and the Leaven
Rory Pilgrim
01.02.-02.03.2014
There are some stones from a quarry in Portland that have travelled far. Large ships carried them. Since 1947 some are resting in New York. In the United Nation Headquarters tourists photograph them and politicians pass them by.
There is a little tree growing in the vicinities of Dorset right now. The winter wind challenges its frail body and brings some salted air from the sea nearby. The tree has little green branches and is hardly a tree in its own right.
There are three women, living in Salt Lake City, more than an ocean away. Silence towers above their talk. In salty lands, they drive modest cars and question the world.
What the leaven transforms and disseminates the salt preserves and destroys.
Here at Rongwrong, Pilgrim presents a series of films, and photographs that he has been making since his teenage years, partly recovered from the archive in his family home set in Dorset and Portland, partly from his recent travels to New York, Utah, and New Mexico.
In this series of new works, imagery of nature collapses and merges with youthful hopes as well as with early American settler's expectations of promise, freedom and plenitude.
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The Salt and the Leaven ~ Rory Pilgrim ~ 1 February – 2 March 2014
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This exhibition is part of the 2013 C.o.C.A. (Collectors of Contemporary Art) Commission.
A special event will take place on Saturday 8th of February at Witte de With, Rotterdam.
Saturday 8 February 2014, 5 – 7 pm.
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam
01.02.-02.03.2014
There are some stones from a quarry in Portland that have travelled far. Large ships carried them. Since 1947 some are resting in New York. In the United Nation Headquarters tourists photograph them and politicians pass them by.
There is a little tree growing in the vicinities of Dorset right now. The winter wind challenges its frail body and brings some salted air from the sea nearby. The tree has little green branches and is hardly a tree in its own right.
There are three women, living in Salt Lake City, more than an ocean away. Silence towers above their talk. In salty lands, they drive modest cars and question the world.
What the leaven transforms and disseminates the salt preserves and destroys.
Here at Rongwrong, Pilgrim presents a series of films, and photographs that he has been making since his teenage years, partly recovered from the archive in his family home set in Dorset and Portland, partly from his recent travels to New York, Utah, and New Mexico.
In this series of new works, imagery of nature collapses and merges with youthful hopes as well as with early American settler's expectations of promise, freedom and plenitude.
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The Salt and the Leaven ~ Rory Pilgrim ~ 1 February – 2 March 2014
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This exhibition is part of the 2013 C.o.C.A. (Collectors of Contemporary Art) Commission.
A special event will take place on Saturday 8th of February at Witte de With, Rotterdam.
Saturday 8 February 2014, 5 – 7 pm.
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam
