Lloyd Corporation

Selected Work

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Today's Gift is Tomorrow's Commodity. Yesterday's Commodity is Tomorrow's Found Art Object. Today's Art Object is Tomorrow's Junk. And Yesterday's Junk is Tomorrow's Heirloom, 2022
Installation view, Carlos/Ishikawa, London

First exhibited at the Brighton CCA in 2022, this work is an exploration of material, political and social structures of trade and exchange. Lloyd Corporation have constructed a sculptural work of five shipping crates. Each is filled with goods collected by the artists in the run up to the exhibition from auctions, abandoned storage units, internet sites, junk shops and street finds. The work is a reflection of the history, systems and culture which enable the movement of goods outside the mainstream; from barrels and blind auctions to shipping crates and the recycle economy. The installation suggests the inadvertent ways in which these assembled items create narratives around themselves and the lives they inhabit.

The work reflects on the implications of global economic policy for local economic infrastructures. How for example do global systems of production impact on small, marginalised economies and communities, creating underground markets and supply routes? In an economy built on production and consumption of the new, what mechanisms are used for materials and items to circulate outside the distribution chains which produce them? How do those systems impact the lives of those sustained but this exchange economy?

We were in a small flea market shop on The Lanes in Brighton, one of the only ones open on a non-market day, during the early phase of Covid lockdown easing … we’ve always been drawn to these kinds of places. Where piles of stuff cascade onto one another, a clumsy and ambivalent materiality that doesn’t call out to be seen. Messy and informal with an unruliness to its staging that at least appears to evade composition and discipline. What Jane Bennet calls ’vibrant matter’. One never knows how long these things have actually been there for, placing them somewhere between alive and obsolete, trash or treasure, transient but enduring, trade and collection, commodities or gifts; and back again.

Through this exploration of object biography, of collections and material accumulation, the artists create a network of connections between the items themselves and the activities and circumstances that link them together; of both global capitalism and informal local economies.

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Exhibitions at Carlos/Ishikawa

Lloyd Corporation
Today’s gift is tomorrow’s commodity [...]
22 Sep – 29 Oct 2022
Lloyd Corporation
Person to Person

part of Condo London 2020

11 Jan – 8 Feb 2020
Lloyd Corporation
Local to Global
9 May – 23 Jun 2018
Lloyd Corporation
Competing Temporalities
6 Jun – 6 Jul 2013
Lloyd Corporation
Connect. Conjugate. Continue.
24 Sep – 29 Oct 2011

Selected Press & Texts

Selected Publications

CV

Ali Eisa (b.1987, UK)
Sebastian Lloyd Rees (b.1986, Norway)

2010 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects

2022
Naked City, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Today's gift is tomorrow's commodity. Yesterday's commodity is tomorrow's found art object. Today's art object is tomorrow's junk. And yesterday's junk is tomorrow's heirloom, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Today's gift is tomorrow's commodity. Yesterday's commodity is tomorrow's found art object. Today's art object is tomorrow's junk. And yesterday's junk is tomorrow's heirloom, Brighton CCA

2021
London / Athens, Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, Wiepersdorf

2020
Person to Person, Carlos/Ishikawa, London

2018
Local to Global, Carlos/Ishikawa, London

2016
Developing Landscapes, Pump House Gallery, London

2013
Competing Temporalities, Carlos/Ishikawa, London

2012
An Idea Once But No Longer Fulfilling, Krabesholm, Denmark
When People Are Silent Stones Speak, Green is Gold, Copenhagen

2011
Connect. Conjugate. Continue, Carlos/Ishikawa, London

2010
Your Space is our Business, Limazulu Project Space, London
Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance, Brickhouse, London

Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects

2024
Summer Exhibition, Redcar Contemporary, Redcar, Yorkshire

2022
Live Art Commissions, The Roberts Institute of Art, London
Testament, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London

2020
You are beautiful the way you are, public installation, blackpuffin, Dakar

2018
S.A.D as part of 'Spectres of Modernism’ (in collaboration with Nina Wakeford), Raven Row, London

2017
Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents, curated by Evelyn Simons, Fondazione Prada, Athens
DADA To TA-DA!, Fisher Parrish Gallery, New York

2015
Inner Landscapes of Time, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam

2014
MIRRORCITY, Hayward Gallery, London
Flow (with Eric Bell and Kristoffer Frick), Peles Empire, London

2013
Consomme, Kinman, London

2012
Archéologies Contemporaines, Musée du Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France
Other Surfaces, Poppy Sebire, London

2011
Peckham 90210, N/V Projects, London
Loading Spaces, Brickhouse Darbyshire Incarnation 5, Site Festival, Stroud
How Can I (or You) Resist, INIVA, London
Risk Assessment, The Viewtube, London.

2010
Rhizomatic, Departure Gallery, London

Selected Residencies

2020
Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, Wiepersdorf

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