Miranda Hallett-Pullen
Untitled (Apeiron)
Miranda Hallett-Pullen does “sculpture” as a verb. Employing a site-specific methodology that produces temporary configurations of pre-existing materials, her work is an assemblage exercise. ‘Untitled (Apeiron)’ is largely composed of stuff from within this very building. Miranda finds this material at the back of the store cupboard, under the sink, in the bins, and in the studio’s equipment and furniture.
Her interest in such prosaic “stuff” is informed by philosophies of materiality which endow inanimate “objects” and “matter” with a vitality of their own. There is a level of environmental concern in her approach, which engages with the mass of inorganic refuse that forms an increasing part of our environments. The work’s title is an ancient Greek term meaning “a shapeless, formless, limitless mass from which everything more specific emerges” (Harman, 2018) which here references both the instability and ongoingness of the materials at hand. Miranda is concerned with how we remain entangled with our detritus, and her work makes this visible.
Harman, G., (2018). Object-Oriented Ontology. Penguin UK.
miranda.hallettpullen@gmail.com
