"This exhibition by Jill Townsley, is a culmination of work carried
out as part of her research into the role of repetition in the process
of art production. Each of the artworks explore ideas of repetitive
labour and its significance to the art object. The exhibition consists
of sculpture, video, film drawing and installation.
All the works are an accumulation of hundreds of hours of repeated
actions. Mind bogglingly tedious and insignificant actions repeated
thousand of times. Actions such as: looping wire, scribbling, gluing
polystyrene beads or tying 3 spoons together with a rubber band 3,091
times.
Some work exists only in the moment, temporally changing, a
culmination of moments, repeating over time. Some works are a result of
thousands of unstable repeated units, each precariously balanced on one
another to make a whole sculpture. Other works are only offered as a
record of process, exploring time in a virtual or parallel timeframe.
The body of work describes the logical application of repetitive
process, illogically extended beyond the usual limits, producing work
that sometimes in the end destroys itself, while still being generative
of new and often surprisingly beautiful moments"
http://www.londonsartistquarter.org/events/jill-townsley-moments-repetition
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