Jeremy Laing: Mutuality

November 27 2025 to January 10 2026

Engaging material process as metaphor at the European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC) residency in the Netherlands this summer Jeremy Laing turned to mould-making as a way of exploring and disrupting the normative and hierarchical structures of the ideal form and its faithful replication.

Conceptually the mould is a stand-in for the predetermined and determining conditions of social formations and identities—the structures we defer to and grow into or divert from and expand or perhaps embody in a more complex way that is both accepting and resisting identifying and disidentifying. Indeed rather than representing a lack or hard limit the contours of a mould’s void provide the basis for innumerable elaborations. Like our lives and identities shaping and being shaped in concurrent mutuality Laing’s new work emerges from a circular pattern of citation and manifestation. No self no other; no master no replica.

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Host or Publisher Susan Hobbs Gallery