Inherent Quality  - Camden Art Centre
Type
Events
Format
In the Building
Date 15 May 2025
19:00-21:00
Price Free

with Catherine Osterberg and Jacques Rogers.

Catherine Osterberg and Jacques Rogers’ recent work often interrogates the relationship between art and its modes of perception, drawing attention to the interplay between form, content and audience. Inherent Quality, a web link rendered in vinyl and installed across the windows of the café, requires viewers to actively seek out its content. Here, the link becomes the work itself—a static, sign-like display untethered from temporal and physical constraints. It functions simultaneously as cultural icon, practical marker, glyph and conceptual proposition.

The Artists

The piece questions the conditions of conventional exhibition formats by asking what happens when the artefact is not the content, but the route to it? If a form’s so-called ‘inherent quality’ becomes indistinguishable from its image, then Inherent Quality suggests that the work may instead reside somewhere between the point of access and its content. Left unchallenged, art risks submission to the demand for visibility, where documentation becomes a substitute for presence and a vehicle for publicity.

Osterberg and Rogers resist this logic by operating within the space between physical encounter and digital circulation. In doing so, they interrupt the transactional dynamics of image culture and redirect attention to the structures that mediate reception itself.

Curated by Saim Demircan as part of a Techne Collaborative Doctoral Award between Camden Art Centre and Kingston University.

With special thanks to Dan Mitchell, Didi Wambugu and Matt Williams.

The Artists

Saim Demircan is a Techne Doctoral Research candidate at Kingston School of Art in collaboration with Camden Art Centre.

Catherine Osterberg and Jacques Rogers live and work in London. Selected exhibitions include: Method 3/Nina 900, Cell Project Space, London, UK (2024); LEVELS, Galerina, London, UK (2024), Advanced Basic, Commercial Street, Los Angeles (with Georgie Nettell), US (2024); Utopia Rooftop Party, Graham Vunderink, Massachusetts, US (2023); and The Kooples, TG, Nottingham, UK (2017). Selected group exhibitions include ‘ASP 8’, ICA, London, UK (2024); ‘Evil or Stupid’, 3236RLS, London, UK (2024); ‘Misery: The English’, Centre D’editions, Melbourne, AU (2023); ‘Where Isn’t Here Now’, Le Bourgeois, London, UK (2023); ‘Homotopy Type Theory’ (curated by Eric Schmid), Centralbanken, Oslo, NO (2023); ‘Group Show’, Graham Vunderink, Massachusetts, US (2023); ‘Towcester Road’, Malmo Gallery, London, UK (2023); ‘Utopia Rooftop Party’, 210 Bellenden (curated by Dana Munro), London, UK (2022); ‘Axiomatic Method’ (curated by Eric Schmid), Centralbanken, Oslo, NO (2022); ‘Death Lolz’, Ludlow 38, New York, US (2017); ‘Death Lolz’, Peak Art, London, UK (2017) ‘Regrouping’ (curated by Ghislaine Leung), Lux, London, UK (2017). They are the co-founders of 3236RLS (also known as Le Bourgeois).