Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing

I missed this but fancy going to see it - I like the ice bit

Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing PRIVATE VIEW: Friday 13 February. Please join us from 6-8pm

The exhibition features work by Francis Alÿs, Iran do Espirito Santo, Callum Innes, Peter Liversidge, Alexander & Susan Maris and Cornelia Parker

Ingleby Gallery's new exhibition, Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, takes its title from a film by Francis Alÿs in which the artist pushes a large block of ice through the streets of Mexico City.

Francis Alÿs Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing) (1997)

It is a film about transformation - literally as the ice melts… something to nothing - but it is also about the futility of human endeavour, or, looked at another way, the poetry of pointlessness. It is an epic kind of uselessness that turns his apparently meaningless effort into an almost heroic event… nothing to something. Transformation, poetic by definition but also perhaps a little subversive, is the theme of this exhibition. It takes different forms: some more obvious than others; some a little violent; some a little funny, but the idea of transformation is somewhere behind all the works on show.