Nicholas Males
Threat of Joy
This body of work operates around our formed preconceptions with objects and the everyday architectural settings within which we find ourselves.
This coexistence between inhabitant, space and object is enabled through unusual combinations, allowing the dweller to form new spatial relationships. These established preconceptions are created through the spaces we have come to inhabit. Even the trivial repetition of the dull office setting impacts us by forcing its way into our consciousness.
This work is in between that of office space, educational setting and home - a realm in which the domestic clashes with the corporate. These diverse objects confront one another, “to create and experience between objects so that viewers are transported outside themselves to recognise a larger, more complex world.” (Julie Becker 5)
This dislocation is caused through these built-up assumptions; purpose-built objects are broken, crushed, stretched, contorted and bent out of shape all to regain your inquiry.
