Packaging cardboard is, by its very nature, intended to contain but it is then discarded. Chris Gilmour, however, uses it to contain the work’s own identity and to highlight the displacement between the original object and the one made in cardboard by turning them into interesting sculptures.

Gilmour’s work includes stunning virtuoso life-size objects, as well as cruder and more essential reproductions, sometimes left at a stage that calls to mind drafts or models. These are however all based on objects we have all experienced first hand- a typewriter, a car, a bicycle, a wheelchair.

 

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