Florence Carr

 

Born three years before the turn of the millenium, in the UK’s smallest historic country, Rutland, Florence Carr’s assemblages eke out a steady supply of pre-digital nostalgia. She repurposes everyday materials - with a particular fondness for parquet flooring and self-sourced Jacquard ribbon - into objects that reject their original purpose, unsettling the cultural codes embedded within them. 

 

Carr’s uses a strict geometry when building her work. The flooring slants side-by-side framing the peep-hole(s) which hold the ribbon. Forget-Me-Not or PG1 use titles as a mechanism to further suggest themes of surveillance, allowing the work to escape the confines of domestic artefact. 

 

After showing with Stallmann in June, she will have a solo show at Petrine in Paris in the coming months.