Exhibitions2016Water Biscuit: The Box

In January 2016, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presented Turk’s Water Biscuit (2010) in The Box, accompanied by the release of a limited-edition print, Half and Half (2015). Half way down (or up) a classic half-pint pub glass, a circular biscuit is stuck flat across its diameter. The thickness of the glass adds an invisible, internal edge, allowing the biscuit to seemingly float. This visual effect provokes the viewer to imagine the surface of the biscuit as that of a liquid’s meniscus. The two objects powerfully expose themselves through a formal balancing act, serving to challenge each other’s everyday functions; the glass becomes an eccentric vitrine, whilst the biscuit becomes a mere place-marker.