The Thousands

Over the years, Emily Floyd has been working almost exclusively with text and applying it to the mediums of paper, sculpture and installation. A well known body of her work focused on celebrated literature concerned with identity and place. She would arrange excerpts from novels such as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, re-contextualising them into the space of the gallery, regenerating the existing narrative, and creating what could be described as a new universe. These works include individual, wooden, cut-out letters, either strung together to make up phrases, or sometimes in a completely unordered pile. Although each work is stand alone, a timeline is created where everything is inter-related and mutually dependent – never wholly self sufficient or independent.**By the words’ respective definitions, the title of the show, The Fertile Void, sounds like a contradiction. Something out of nothing. That’s how the universe was created. The Big Bang. That’s exactly what this show, The Fertile Void is, a big bang.