Hidden Noise Idiom
London, December 2024
The exhibition Hidden Noise Idiom is a hybrid endeavour: the launch of the seventh volume of the journal Bricks from the Kiln, nested within a presentation of industrial design in collaboration with Fels. The staging sets out an environment of objects and furniture, texts and typography that offer in different ways, the seeds of new noise. The environment presents both function and display, making itself a surrogate model of the editorial concept of Bricks from the Kiln: what it means for a publication to be a container —to act openly as the shell for contributors to fill with any subjects or obsessions that preoccupy them — a structure that is paradoxical in being not ruin, nor diagram, nor architecture, but an economical set of permutations that are rational in one sense, yet defiantly flexible to move, to hold differently, to readdress.
The artists and designers in Hidden Noise Idiom share a fundamental ambition in physical, hand-wrought production. All embody practices that produce objects and furniture whose pursuit towards paradox and tactile ingenuity reject, recycle or recompose the conventions of interior space. The results are complete units of component parts, that continue to redefine how and what contemporary function looks like: material, ideal, natural and cultural – individual vessels themselves that acquire expressions of irrationality, decoration and deviance. All embody the idea that the living world is not just an arrangement of superficial textures, but a vibrating machine of continually shifting identity.
Participating designers include:
Andu Masebo, Carsten in der Elst, EJR Barnes, Grace Prince, James Jessiman, LS GOMMA, Lukas Gschwandtner, Minjae Kim, Olivia Bossy, Philippe Malouin, Rooms Studio, Tino Seubert, and Wendy Andreu.
Bricks from the Kiln was founded in 2015 and doubles as a journal and imprint which supports and advocates for critically minded yet explorative writing on and around art, design, and literature. Each installment includes long-form essays which are accompanied by fiction, poetry, and other less classifiable forms. Volume seven is co-edited by Helen Marten, Harriet Moore and Matthew Stuart.
Contributors include:
Aurelia Guo, Cally Spooner, Charline von Heyl, Daisy Hildyard, Eliot Weinberger, Eliza Barry Callahan, Felix Bernstein, Jason Schwartz, Kathryn Scanlan, Lucy Mercer, Lydia Ourahmane, Line-Gry Hørup, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Najwa Barakat, Rachael Allen, Roy Claire-Potter, Rosemarie Waldrop, Susan Howe and Walter Price.
Hosted by Helen Marten Studio