Drift

I imagine a room where nothing is solid. In this world, feeling comes before knowing. Sinking through time, objects appear – they are familiar, but, devoid of their usual context, they take on new meaning. Movement exists without progress. Together, we slip through states of being: sleeping and waking; action and inaction; object and human. Fragments set adrift in unpredictable currents, drawn together by imperceptible forces. Tiding over until the mirage of calm ahead. The numbness of time passing.

Combining performance, sculpture, video, drawing, and collage, Drift explores what it means to live without direction. For more and more of us, meeting our basic physical needs is a daily struggle, but shouldn’t life amount to more than this? What role does ambition play when there is no end goal in sight? When the future is so uncertain?

Meg Erridge is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the ways objects and movement shape, and respond to, our understanding of the world. The desire to learn and communicate becomes an excuse to experiment with new processes and approaches to making. Having graduated in 2023 from the Ruskin School of Art (University of Oxford), Drift will be her first solo show, and is informed by her sense of having been cast adrift by the education system.