Pre-empty | Curated by George Unsworth

Photographs by Tom Carter ©Evelyn Yard

…outside they became bored by the truth; inside they became scared by belief. fragranced displays disorientated the revellers so much the streets became silenced by new age anxiety; a new nature pervaded the gallery expressly conditioned to highlight hidden danger. co-opting the risk together for progress in the face of real loss, give yourself more time to interpret safety spiritually and apply greater meaning to your future sacrifice. don’t be scared. think of family and complete the sentence, you are to truth what I am….

…to be emptied safe. walking past churches like ‘i wonder if god likes it there or if it feels like an obligation’ but learning to or avoiding extending that impulse to everywhere and everything good. nobody gets infinite summers. Would Inspector Sands please report to the front entrance. dust is skin, but whose skin/and where/and why? what is there still left to be taken inside and how long before it isn’t practiced masking dry inclusion masked inward exclusion but constant tiredness from the journey Prevention as the dominant organising principle makes the dust mites around the vents scurrying and light/touch on the horizon following something intervening against…

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