Plinth Drawings II

<i>Space Insert / red line (V&A)</i> 2014, Digital print on Airtrikot 100g/qm fabric 243 x 348 cm Installation view, solo presentation, <i>Discoveries</i> with Rokeby Gallery, Art Basel, Hong Kong. 2014

<i>Untitled, (blue)</i> 2014, One of 7 framed and stacked photographic prints for Plinth Drawings II; Photographed in a state of ‘in-betweenness’ by Buck during one week of daily visits to the V&A, London in Jan 2014.

<i>Untitled, (cast court)</i> 2014, One of 7 framed and stacked photographic prints for Plinth Drawings II; Photographed in a state of ‘in-betweenness’ by Buck during one week of daily visits to the V&A, London in Jan 2014.

<i>Untitled (crutches girl)</i> 2014, One of 7 framed and stacked photographic prints for Plinth Drawings II; Photographed in a state of ‘in-betweenness’ by Buck during one week of daily visits to the V&A, London in Jan 2014.

<i>Untitled (Chinese drawer)</i> 2014, One of 7 framed and stacked photographic prints for Plinth Drawings II; Photographed in a state of ‘in-betweenness’ by Buck during one week of daily visits to the V&A, London in Jan 2014.

<i>Untitled (Oliver Dorman - 11th of Feb. 2014)</i>, One of 5 commissioned drawings by artists found sketching in situ during one week of daily visits by Buck to the V&A, London. Each artists was paid a set fee for their time, labour and skill.

Plinth Drawings II

2014. Cardboard, gum strip tape, hand-welded bronze model
Installation dimensions variable
Plinth Drawings II presents 1:1 cardboard versions of nine plinths created for Auguste Rodin’s group of sculptures at the V&A, London. Stacked inside, against or near one another they resemble cardboard storage boxes or modular display units as much as they do plinths. Positioned on top of one of the plinths is a set of miniature hand welded bronze 1:15 versions of the nine plinths. And standing inside or leaning against more than one of the plinths are 12 framed images (7 photographs and 5 drawings).
These are related to the display context of the V&A in which the original plinths were found and act as a kind of temporary system within the work. The framed photographs and drawings – which can be handled by the viewer – are understood as object-like, mobile and temporary arrangements and will change with each installation of the work according to the context and space it occupies.