If Richard Ducker’s previous sculptures turned the detritus of consumer culture into monuments to our obsession with things, this new work turns monumental sculptural tropes into dumb chunks of material poised precariously between ugliness and fascination.

Failing to resolve into either sense or nonsense, Ducker’s sculptures turn the artist’s own alienation from language into a shared bodily experience. They disturb the connection between form and meaning, between body and the ‘clean and proper self’ of a subjectivity that has fully entered into language and the semiotic, yet they do not allow us to wallow in abjection and the symbolic. In Ducker’s work, now as before, we are deceived by objects and failed by language, left in conflict between desire and meaning, daftness and poetry. (Patrizia Di Bello)

Dates of show Until 30th October
Place of show Angus-Hughes Gallery, 26 Lower Clapton Road
Further details http://www.angus-hughes.com/