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The Second Ruin
On view from April 24 - May 15, 2025
Miya Kosowick | Henry Glover
The Second Ruin brings together artists Henry Glover and Miya Kosowick in a post-industrial archaeology of imagination, where material remnants speak in the language of loss, memory and transformation. The landscape is sparse, a site of half-formed architectures, and ossified relics. Wax-dark residues, fractured ceramics, and skeletal structures suggest both abandonment and the beginning of a new mythos. These remnants are not merely discarded; they are suspended in dialogue. Corroded forms, at times ornamental, at others defunct, gesture toward a forgotten purpose or ritual never quite complete.
Walls bear twin images like mirrored memories or breached portals, inviting the viewer to navigate layered dimensions of time and vision. Nothing stands alone; everything exists in relation. Through a process of call and response, the work of both artists in situ forms an intricate web across found and made objects; spanning paint, clay and wax. Glover and Kosowick do not co-create singular works but instead develop individual pieces that engage in an ongoing, shifting dialogue. Some pairings face the viewer directly, while others create unexpected echoes.
Loosely inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker in its aesthetics along with literary references such as Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, and The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard, the exhibition unfolds like a dreamlike journey through time and memory. Dim lighting, aged textures, and the traces of hinoki incense immerse visitors in an environment where history feels both tangible and elusive.
Rejecting the immediacy of the digital age, Glover and Kosowick embrace the slowness and tactility of physical media. Their work emphasises materiality as a form of presence in an era of disembodiment and shifting cultural landscapes. The wreckage is intimate, speculative and eerily animate. In this zone, memory and matter intertwine, forming a landscape where meaning flickers like light on the black water, the second ruin.
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The Second Ruin
On view from April 24 - May 15, 2025
Miya Kosowick | Henry Glover
The Second Ruin brings together artists Henry Glover and Miya Kosowick in a post-industrial archaeology of imagination, where material remnants speak in the language of loss, memory and transformation. The landscape is sparse, a site of half-formed architectures, and ossified relics. Wax-dark residues, fractured ceramics, and skeletal structures suggest both abandonment and the beginning of a new mythos. These remnants are not merely discarded; they are suspended in dialogue. Corroded forms, at times ornamental, at others defunct, gesture toward a forgotten purpose or ritual never quite complete.
Walls bear twin images like mirrored memories or breached portals, inviting the viewer to navigate layered dimensions of time and vision. Nothing stands alone; everything exists in relation. Through a process of call and response, the work of both artists in situ forms an intricate web across found and made objects; spanning paint, clay and wax. Glover and Kosowick do not co-create singular works but instead develop individual pieces that engage in an ongoing, shifting dialogue. Some pairings face the viewer directly, while others create unexpected echoes.
Loosely inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker in its aesthetics along with literary references such as Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, and The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard, the exhibition unfolds like a dreamlike journey through time and memory. Dim lighting, aged textures, and the traces of hinoki incense immerse visitors in an environment where history feels both tangible and elusive.
Rejecting the immediacy of the digital age, Glover and Kosowick embrace the slowness and tactility of physical media. Their work emphasises materiality as a form of presence in an era of disembodiment and shifting cultural landscapes. The wreckage is intimate, speculative and eerily animate. In this zone, memory and matter intertwine, forming a landscape where meaning flickers like light on the black water, the second ruin.
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Miya Kosowick Skeletal folly 2025Rebar, sculpted wax, black metal paint, steel tying wire, wheatgrass
Miya Kosowick To salvage 2025Wrought iron welded fence, natural rust and foliage from the garden, sculpted wax, black metal paint
Miya Kosowick Skeletal folly 2025
Rebar, sculpted wax, black metal paint, steel tying wire, wheatgrass
Henry Glover (Above) “It could have been otherwise” 2025
Oil on hessian
Miya Kosowick (Below) “What are you after?” 2025
Oil on canvas