Dimensions: object: 890 x 1100 x 880 mm
Copyright: © Richard Wentworth | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Richard Wentworth's "Shower" presents a humble table, strangely adorned with a propeller and a dangling chain. It's playful, but also feels very deliberate in its construction. What do you see in this piece? Curator: I see a critique of functionalism. Wentworth elevates the mundane through careful material choices. The wood, the metal, the chain – each speaks to industry and the ready-made. It challenges our consumption habits and labor expectations, doesn't it? Editor: It does make you think about where things come from. So, it’s less about what it *is* and more about what it *represents* about production? Curator: Precisely. It uses everyday objects to question the very systems that create them. Hopefully it inspires us to value the process of making. Editor: Definitely gives a new appreciation. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Richard Wentworth's sculpture typically takes mundane objects and transforms their role and identity. He gives everyday items like chairs, tables and buckets a double role, to disrupt their conventional significance. Shower demonstrates Wentworth's affection for the commonplace, combining a 1950s table and a model ship's propeller. The propeller is fixed to the table, as if to a boat, like childhood games in which items of furniture become imaginary vehicles. The plate suggests that the table is anchored to the floor. The title refers to a memory of seeing tilted tables outside a café during a heavy shower in Spain. Gallery label, May 2007
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