This two-person exhibition at BISCHOFF/WEISS compares Sara MacKillop and Erica Baum’s individual processes of selecting, collecting and editing and highlights the ways in which these processes separate the formal attributes of objects from their use or meaning.

Running along several parallel lines of enquiry, the work of both artists forces the de-contextualisation and abstraction of familiar objects such as library cards, books, stationery, display paper and jigsaws.

Interspersing two series of Baum’s work, Card Catalogue series and The Naked Eye series with several works of MacKillop, the exhibition also engages with a shared interest in redundant systems. Whilst resisting any sense of nostalgia Baum and MacKillop both utilise recently obsolete materials and point to the potential humour and bathos found in their appropriation.