‘ … It was a
stationery drawer, but his guesswork had been almost entirely wrong. The
imagined list of objects, a moment ago an array of potent presences in the
room, instantaneously dematerialised as mere conjecture. Dr Sinclair silently
replaced the items, slid the drawer back in, then moved the desk against the
wall. He surmised that the drawer had a peculiarly clandestine way of being;
suspended within a meta-structure, like a deeply nested fiction, it was
inclined to partially conceal itself within another object. He concluded that
his initial assessment of the drawer’s suspicious character had been entirely
correct.’
from The
Fabricator’s Tale by Katrina Palmer, Book Works, London 2014
Dr.
Sinclair’s Drawer is an
exhibition produced by Book Works and Flat Time House with artist Katrina
Palmer, following her residency at Flat Time House in Summer 2013. Featuring
work by Katrina Palmer, Francesco Pedraglio, Samuel Hasler and Sarah Tripp, the
exhibition comprises writing, sound recordings, video, sculpture and printed
matter, presented in conversation with the physical and symbolic environment of
John Latham’s former home and studio.
The
Fabricator’s Tale, Katrina
Palmer’s second book to be published with Book Works and partly written at Flat
Time House, will be launched at the opening of Dr. Sinclair’s Drawer on
Wednesday 8 October.
In addition
to the exhibition, Book Works and Flat Time House in collaboration with the
Hayward Gallery present an evening of readings and performance by Katrina
Palmer, Samuel Hasler, Francesco Pedraglio and Sarah Tripp on Saturday 15
November at 5pm at the Hayward Gallery Project Space, Southbank Centre. Further
details to be announced.
