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Protusion: a collaboration with the artist Samuel Eyles

Start Date
06 September 2024
End Date
19 October 2024
Venue
Madsen Sylvester Studio
Location
Ramsgate, Kent
Curator
Cyana Madsen
Artist
Samuel Eyles
A window display featuring an installation. (Centre) A painted figure with exaggerated features is positioned behind a table with a bowl, the figure is grey and red. Surrounded by suspended white socks with blue stripes. Dozens of similar socks are scattered across the floor of the display.
A close up of a figure in hues of grey, pink, red and green. The figure poises with a silver spoon and in front of the figure is a round dish with a red liquid inside. The painting is surrounded by suspended white socks with blue stripes.
A collection of white socks with blue stripes. Some of the socks are paired, crumpled up and laid out flat.
One window display is a large blank canvas is mounted backward on a wooden brown easel, facing the street. Scattered below are empty black and gold wine bottles, used clear glasses, and a tilted grey champagne bucket.
On display in the window is a vibrant painting of a female figure wearing a grey hat, glasses, black top and is smoking. The figure is posed at a black table with empty clear wine glasses, and food. On the floor are various empty wine glasses and a grey champagne bucket.

Exhibition 3: PROTRUSION: a collaboration with the artist Samuel Eyles

Curator: Cyana Madsen

Date: 6th September 2024 – 19th October 2024

In the painting REQUIEM FOR A BROKEN BOWL (2020), one of the most intimate and utilitarian garments, the sport sock, becomes a symbol of self-loathing, indignity, and solitude. In response to this painting by multidisciplinary artist Samuel Eyles, Cyana Madsen curated PROTRUSION: a collaboration with the artist Samuel Eyles (2024).

This installation materialised Eyles’ fraught emotional world by producing a series of ribbed cotton talismans to boredom, repetition, and filth. The socks crawled out of the canvas to transform Eyles’ symbol of shame into a coveted object which is beautiful, functional, and provides tactile pleasure.

REQUIEM FOR A BROKEN BOWL is not for sale, and Eyles’ practice is now focused on writing and filmmaking. Each pair of socks thus became both an essential part of the exhibition design, and an editioned work. Socks were available to purchase through AWMS, and were delivered to owners after the exhibition closed on 19th October 2024. Each pair uniquely reflected the impact of exposure on their colouring and structure: embodying and memorialising the ephemeral nature of practice and display.

In celebration of MADSEN SYLVESTER STUDIO’s first collaborative project, a durational event was held on the evening of Friday, 6th September 2024 and was exhibited until Monday, 9th September 2024. Visitors to the private view of PROTRUSION: a collaboration with the artist Samuel Eyles were invited to contribute a participatory response to Eyles’ painting Iv changed Sam, I wear a hat now (2018). Using discarded glassware they had drunk from, visitors created their own protrusion in the membrane between the world rendered on Eyles’ canvas, and the exhibition space.

Images Courtesy of Madsen Sylvester Studio.