Max Berry

STOCKROOM

Images and artifacts are interchangeable with ideas and symbols, merging perception and meaning.
Each are subject to the malleable nature of memory and time; rendering real objects as felt experience with a hidden cache of meaning.

As we observe and make sense of the world, we collect a recording of our experience – a data set of images and artefacts. These curiosities compel our attention and often produce new meanings that unfold with time.

In this latest exhibition, Berry presents new work that serves as a guide for thinking. The pieces are simple tools, vectors for meaning. They walk with you in exploring universal dichotomies of birth and death, love and loneliness, anxiety and wonder. He speaks our shared language of symbols, he draws on our collective memory.

This exhibition is a tribute to the power of the observed. To the power of belief to imbue the mundane with the sublime. And a warning about the opposite, the power of disbelief to strip the world of meaning and connection. The work asks the audience to build their own meaning and ask their own questions. To find the seeds of possibility.

Images and artifacts can link, with unexpected convergence, the chaos and complexity of our world. This show is an offering of time; time in which to stimulate memory and prompt new ideas.