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Sunday Salon 25 | Nick Kennedy | The Natural Behaviour of Things
Saturation Point, Deptford, London | 5 March 2023
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For his Sunday Salon Kennedy presents a selection of recent work in a variety of
media including drawing, painting and sculpture. Through his work Kennedy deploys
technology and materials systematically to set up experiments that engage with human
constructs such as time and systems of value, which shape and define our experience
of the world. His measured, process-
Drawing and its inherent temporality is a key thread that weaves its way through
Kennedy’s work; from a recent series of works on paper, each produced in collaboration
with machines over a single day, to a pair of new kinetic sculptures that will draw
for decades and outlive the artist. His Chronogene sculptures act like abstract clocks,
embodying the passage of time. Referring to both a history and a future of time,
their carefully poised spring-
A new body of reductive paintings, entitled The Natural Behaviour of Things, is constructed
from a library of symbols and glyphs created by the artist, which visually recall
elements of both early 20th century Suprematism and the contemporary visual language
of the digital icon. Structurally, the work departs from the artist's ongoing body
of Dice Drawings, which employ a chance-
