PC1:GS:Cor

Corners

Karli Henneman

Sebastiaan Knot

Ben Nason

Jen Everett

Julius Heinemann

Erris Huigens

Imi Knoebel

Charlotte Moth

Felrath Hines

George Meyrick

Beverley Bennett

Joanie Lemercier

Frank Leuwer

Ayeshah Zolghadr

Micah Lexier

Leslie Hewitt

You're cornered!

Corners are structural, they're foundational. They give form and strength and edges. Anyone who's built a Lego house knows a corner is what enables walls to stand. Yet corners carry emotional weight too, they're places we're "sent" to be quiet, to reflect, to disappear. They are zones of discipline, protection, hiding.

We don’t often notice them. In galleries, corners are often dead zones, awkward junctures, avoided by wall text and curatorial sightlines. Yet, they hold tremendous spatial and metaphorical power and opportunity.
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This imagined exhibition invites the corner to take centre stage—to be the focus, not the fringe.

“Every corner in a house…is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; it is the germ of a room, or of a house.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

In this drawer, artists consider the corner as site, gesture, and metaphor. Works bend around it, nestle into it, or expand from it. Installations press you toward angles you might not anticipate. Sculptures make you lean in, almost conspiratorially. Drawings reposition your gaze, asking: What does this corner want?

Corners might appear quiet but they are never neutral. They shape how we stand, what we notice, and where our bodies belong. They are a powerful curatorial tool and one that this exhibition celebrates.​

This exhibition extends from Cornered Stories, a project co-curated with Vishwa Shroff. It is a conversation about edges, domesticity, architectural constraint, and what pulses within the periphery.

​PlanChest1: chairs, corridors, corners, curtains, portals to play
​​PlanChest2: Louise Lawler, Vishwa Shroff, Ralph Rugoff, Kobby Adli
PlanChest 3: gallery seating, vitrines, four rooms