Verge Gallery: ‘This won’t last’ exhibition

Get to know Verge’s latest exhibition:
by Chris Dolman
🗓️ Premiering in Verge Gallery: 2 – 31 October

This won’t last is an installation that takes on ideas of the contemporary ruin to explore impermanence, disembodiment, failure, and decay.  

The exhibition in a broad sense is a response to questions Dolman has pondered lately; Can a ruin ever be complete, or is its essence always in the process of becoming? Do ideas shape the world more through their clarity or their ambiguity? Is a ruin a mask, or a memory unravelling?  

Through hand building and sandcasting, layered monoprints and soundscapes, disguised office furniture, field recordings, and videos on phones, the work draws on fragments of personal history, speaks to the artist studio as a site of ruin, and speculates on a collective dystopic future that is quickly closing in. 

Learn more here.

Events Lineup:

Exhibition Launch
🗓️ Thursday 2 October: 6 – 8pm
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Echoes (Twilight): This won’t last
🗓️ Thursday 23 October: 5:30 – 7:30pm
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In Conversation with Chris Dolman
🗓️ Wednesday 29 October: 12 – 1pm
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📸 Image credit: Chris Dolman, This won’t last, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.