The collaborative group exhibition Sculpture of The Space Age, is the second edition of our Curators’ Series, a platform to support independent curators, duos and organisations to develop and deliver thematic exhibitions with newly commissioned works. Curated by Raimundas Malašauskas, the exhibition has been developed collectively with artists Gintaras Didžiapetris, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres and Rosalind Nashashibi over the last twelve months to make a fiction real.
The title Sculpture of The Space Age refers to a purely fictional exhibition mentioned in J. G. Ballard’s The Object of the Attack (1984), which in the short story was held at the Serpentine Gallery in the late 70’s. This exhibition, which never happened, is not even described in the text and exists solely as a title. Malašauskas started a discussion with the artists about this potential exhibition and describes his process as 'an interdisciplinary experiment of space-time traveling.' He writes: 'Mario Garcia Torres with Ryan Gander and Gintaras Didžiapetris with Rosalind Nashashibi bring Sculpture of The Space Age to where it could have been and where it has never been yet: the year 2009. The show looks as if it was installed in the 70s, but will open its door only tomorrow.’
