Commune.1 is pleased to announce ‘Seeing red, feeling blue’, Greg Streak’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Streak’s sculptures present the illusion of possibility and hope, however through various interventions they proceed to pull the rug from under the viewer’s feet dispelling all former optimism. Inherently functional objects have their functionality removed: a cast concrete light bulb incapable of shedding light, a core-drilled set of Encyclopedia’s with it’s ‘core’ unusable, the removed parts suspended in an acrylic vial on the other side of the gallery, and a traditional library-style index card drawer cast in bronze and thereby rendered impenetrable. The ‘doodle’ thematic (and it’s sense of futility or lack of operation) runs throughout and ultimately manifests in several actual doodles.

The exhibition marks Streak’s first show in South Africa since his critically acclaimed exhibition ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ shown at Art Amsterdam in 2010.