Rowing is pleased to present Cd0xdsspi, a new project for the cabinet room by Samara Scott. Scott treats the space like a cleavage, a utilisation of a warm soft space for placing items. Objects are amassed from everyday life–sticky sweeties, warm-washed materials, starchy dyed foodstuffs, chewy Blu-Tack, hand torn crusts of sponges and glittery rubbish suggesting an underwater world of slow churning memories, synth pop or perhaps the feeling of a summer holiday in the Bosporus.
The tempo dribbling between these erratic ‘mating surfaces’ is hesitant, frustrated–a webby top layer scattering jerks of exclamation marks and slurred pauses. The posing composition of fizzy and soft edges and semi-undressed sediments are a lasagna-sandwich of plastic nostalgia.
The unpronounceable title comes from a text message the artist sent accidentally through her tight trouser pocket on a Friday night. The formation of letters generated by the pressures of movement, pressed between a moving, dancing body and close-fit denim. This keyboard mash is a burst of pop expressionism, in its own way a kind of action painting romantically alluding to the painterly histories of intuition, speed and chance; a real sexy intimate moment born in a sweaty pocket.
To accompany her project, Scott will also be producing a limited edition of ten colour-changing mood rings each containing a unique engraving.
Samara Scott was born in London in 1984. She lives and works in London. She has exhibited throughout the UK including Seventeen Gallery, The Sunday Painter, V22, The Drawing Room, The Royal Standard (Liverpool), Folkestone Triennial, with a solo show Four Seasons at Arts&Jobs in March 2012. She has also exhibited internationally including Christopher Crescent at HD:Projects (New York), LVL3 (Chicago), and Duty Free at Arkasşirket Foundation (Istanbul)