Artists: Oscar Enberg, Sara Knowland, Soshiro Matsubara, Oliver Osborne, Hamish Pearch, Garrett Pruter, Laurie Smith, Elinor Stanley, Rosemarie Trockel, Lingrui Zhang
Exhibition title: Day by Day, Good Day
Curated by: Ted Targett
Venue: Union Pacific, London, UK
Date: April 26 – May 20, 2023
Photography: Tom Carter / all images courtesy of the artists and Union Pacific, London
‘Day by Day, Good Day’ draws its title from a series of paintings made by German artist Peter Dreher from 1974 until his death in 2020. Over the course of those 45 years, Dreher painted 5,000 versions of the same glass of water, recording the subtle shifts of light across each passing day. His presence here is more than just a borrowed name: Dreher’s steady focus and protracted lens lives on in the ten artists whose works line the floors and walls.
Each artwork is the result of intrigue with a specific subject. The featured artists make repetitions, with subtle revisions of context, material or method of presentation. They do so to underpin the origin of their fixation, only occasionally diverting elsewhere before returning to their sustaining fascination. Through this longing to understand their preoccupations, the constant retellings reveal new meanings, unearthing revelations that, day by day, will doubtlessly appear again.
