“My forms are precarious, I like to feel they inhabit a sense of uncertainty and instability fuelled by my own anxieties as an artist living and working on the edges of a city.”
Josh C Wright’s work explores the relationship between art and anxiety. He investigates urban issues seemingly beyond our control, such as high rents, debt and the changing role of the home, while recognising the mental and physical burden these external forces put upon us.
For Precarious, we showcase Untitled (2021) and Monads of the Urban Sea (2020) which both contain a sense of foreboding; with precariously stacked bricks that seem as though they could fall at any moment. It is as if they are inhabited with a sense of uncertainty and instability fuelled by Josh’s own anxieties as an artist living and working on the edges of London. Walls bend and start to collapse, while tessellating bricks are impregnated with aromatherapy scents and acupuncture needles in an attempt to relieve our anxieties about the world around us.
Josh C. Wright lives and works in London. He has exhibited widely including Hypha Presents at Hypha Studios Mayfair, London (2022) and Groundwork at Studio West, London (2022). He recently curated a group exhibition titled Lost in a Just-in-Time Supply Chain at Hypha Studios, London (2022).
