Automotive Geologies (VW golf)
2021
Automotive Geologies (VW Golf)
2021
1980 Volkswagen Golf, Various car panels, Mild Steel, paint, sound equipment
sound composition - Jed Palmer
Jason Waterhouse’s sculptural practice is underpinned by ideas of contemporary architecture, urbanisation and how we live with the ‘stuff’ around us. In Waterhouse’s studio, ubiquitous objects such as the body of a car, a gardener’s shed, pencils, tools and tree branches undergo series of interventions resulting in a hybridised object that occupies an uncanny space between the past and the present, the natural and the manufactured. “The Golf felt itself slipping, shifting, changing,” muses Waterhouse. “As the passing of time takes its toll, the metal panels oxidise, plastic becomes faded and brittle, and the golf started shifting back into the geologies from which it came.”