Samantha Cheng

Mass/mess
Window Gallery, 12 July - 9 August 2023

Mass/mess presents a collection of brooms for viewers to peruse onsite at Window. This exhibition is a result of the efforts of the artist to bring together variations of the humble broom in a reframing of the object into an art context. Placed in this installation, the objects become artefacts; they are relics of the spaces they used to inhabit and function in. Within the collection, they also come to represent the people and/or institutions who have generously loaned them out to the artist.

Together, the individual objects create an installation that considers the broom’s materiality and thing-power. The brooms are in order and then out of order. Some have been interfered with through visible ‘improvements’ and others have been dismantled into the parts that make it whole.

*Images by the artist