… And How Do You Choose Your Form? Alexander Glass

April 17th 2021 - May 2nd 2021

I know we must abide
Each by the rules that bind us here:
The divers and the sailors and the women on the pier

And how do you choose your form?
How do you choose your name? How do you choose your life?
How do you choose the time you must exhale and kick and rise?

Joanna Newsome – Divers

Between the anticipation and the plunge, the thought and the conclusion, is the shape you take to perform your dive. …and how do you choose your form? is an expression of desire and the potential of what we could be through the suspension of pleasure. The swimming pool and the diver serve as a condition to present the moments before and after an act but never the form that is taken to perform it. Conceived within a year of self-reflection, the exhibition seeks to blend the collective urge for motion with the cautionary tales of metamorphosis from classical mythology. Preparation, action & satisfaction.

Alexander Glass

Alexander Glass (born London 1992) is a graduate of The Royal College of Art MA Fine Art Sculpture programme (2017) & The University of Brighton (2014). Glass’ most recent exhibitions include To My Twenties at The Koppel Project, London, and Queer Contemporaries, at AIR Gallery, Alrtrincham.

Glass’ sculptural and installation practise explores the complex relationship between masculinity, desire and the world of aspiration. His work has been collected by The Currell Collection and has been permanently installed at Broomhill Sculpture Garden. At the end of 2019 he was commissioned by British Airways’ First Life Magazine to create the sculpture Glacial Descent for the front cover of their Winter Edition.