According to contemporaneous accounts, gnomes intruded into the renaissance world from within its proliferating mines; laughing, taunting or gifting miners with a rich seam of ore. In hopes of tethering human perception to those who could reveal the secrets of an alien landscape, their likenesses were fabricated for domestic space and carefully maintained by their makers.

Leaving my flat every day for the past five years, I passed two gnomes on the neighbour’s doorstep which have recently disappeared. Effigies of these gnomes are introduced into the setting of the exhibition, from whose bodies may arise a memory and a perception.