​An exhibition by himHallows

 

Open 03 — 31 August.

Tuesday — Saturday, 10am to 4pm

 

Altogether Otherwise 6 — 10 Hanover St

Manchester, NOMA, M4 4BB (5 mins from Shudehill Bus Station)

 

SCALE is an exhibition of repeating infrastructure inspired patterns. The works make use of the industrial unit sized space at Altogether Otherwise with each piece measuring approximately 2 metres by 3 metres.

When viewed close up, each tile of a pattern represents a single scene of infrastructure and how it is taken in a fleeting glimpse; Tower cranes on a building site spotted through a gap in the city skyline, wind turbines appearing round the bend of a hill or AC units clustered around an office window. When the viewer steps back, the repeating tiles reveal these systems’ extent and reach as part of a much bigger network, seemingly absurd in its repetition but more representative of a global infrastructure.

The patterns are created by digitally arranging and layering hand-drawn elements. The pattern tiles are mass printed by risograph printing, trimmed to an A4 repeating tile and then connected together to create a larger pattern piece. As each tile repeats at every edge, the size of the pattern is only limited by the space it is displayed in.