The exhibition points to the power, prevalence and activity of non-human entities within the places we inhabit. Items such as windows, cabinets, gym equipment, beds, chairs, pet cats and fish, ponds, shoe boxes and record players are some such items that inhabit our domesticities and, to Egashira, remain entirely separate yet determinant agents upon our behaviour and sense of place in the world. By stepping into the unusual mind of Egashira and into a realm of the absurd, Beautifully Incomplete will revisit old works that attempt to consider a new possibility of living amongst the things that surround us.

Shin Egashira (Tokyo, 1963) is an artist, architect and educator that worked in Tokyo, Beijing and New York before coming to London where he established since 1987. His recent experiments include the construction of Alfred Jarry’s “Time Machine” alongside astro-physicist Andrew Jaffe, “How to Walk a Flat elephant” and “Twisting Concrete”, which fuses old and new technologies. Shin Egashira conducts a series of landscape workshops in rural and inner city communities across the world including Koshirakura (Japan), Muxagata (Portugal), Shanghai, Brooklyn and Tokyo. He has been teaching at the Architectural Association since 1990 and is the Unit Master of Diploma Unit 11. With the theme of “Urban Interior” the unit has been closely observing London’s inner peripheries in opposition to the recursive forms of urban gentrification and erasure. His works have been exhibited internationally. He has been artist in residency at the Camden Arts Centre in London and Bennington College in Vermont.

The exhibition will run from 8 June – 27 July and the Private View will be on 7 June from 6pm – 8pm. Betts Project, 100 Central Street, London, EC1V 8AJ. Visit Bett's Project for more information.

Image: Shin Egashira, Parallel Garden - Double (Cross) Globes, 1993, graphite on tracing paper, 42 x 59.4 cm. Courtesy the artist and Betts Project