Florence Wild
Droopy time
24 July – 17 August 2024
‘The tides never wash the sand or make it firm. When I tried to make a sandcastle, the sand would just run away through my fingers. It was too dry to hold together. And even if I poured sea water over it, the sun would dry it up at once.’
– Iris Murdoch, The Sandcastle
Droopy time brings together recent sculptures that explore forms of time, distance, and acts of leaving and returning.
The sculptures are made from a curious assortment of materials: flamboyant vintage ties filled with rice, tissue paper forms found inside new shoes, volcanic sand small rodents bathe in, guitar strings played by a partner, discarded piano keys and architectural drawing tubes.
In another act of returning, Droopy time is accompanied with a text by Ash Kilmartin, found here.
In 2008, Florence and Ash presented Modern Love, a duo show at then Rm 103.
Florence Wild left Auckland in 2010 and is living in Stockholm, Sweden. Recent exhibitions include At Sea, Alta Art Space, Malmö, Temporary Secretary with Milli Jannides, Temporary Secretary, Stockholm, Local Haunts, Galleri ID:I, Stockholm. She runs the exhibition space Temporary Secretary in Stockholm and regularly writes texts for other artists.
With support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Images by Ardit Hoxha