Lattice - Duo Show at FILET

16th  November – 23rd November 2024

Opening Saturday, 16th November, 3pm – 6pm 

 FILET, 103 Murray Grove, London, N1 7QP

Lattice is an exhibition by artists Ramona Güntert and Joshua Phillips, bringing together a selection of works that embody a “patterned materiality” - a visual language shaped by form and force, time and matter. The title suggests an interplay between structure and ornament—the weaving of elements to create something that can be looked through and grown around, existing somewhere between the aesthetic and the functional.

As a verb, the term lattice may be thought of as a visual practice - gathering elements and bringing them together in order to form a cohesive pattern. Both artists reveal objects and artifacts of this nature, from analogue and digital photography, to assemblage of both found and made materials. 

Güntert's work draws inspiration from the apple harvest, using the natural cycle and its remnants as the foundation for her installation. Through the process of transformation, solid becomes liquid, unseen currents move through a sieve and leave a shimmer on the surface. This act of change mirrors the ritual of distillation, akin to alchemy or analogue photography where raw materials through energy (heat and light) are transmuted into new forms.

Phillips presents a series of works cantered on a single motif: the crumbling structure of an English farmhouse. He uses this image of ruin as a metaphor to unpack broader concerns around national myths and the cultural sentiment contained in aesthetic principles like those of the Picturesque. An untidy sprawl of objects, reminiscent of a dilapidated building, through their visual treatment, become something nascent - material taking form, building becoming architecture.