{"id":794,"date":"2024-04-12T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/?p=794"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:00:08","slug":"ruin-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Ruin me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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12 April \u2013 2 May 2024
Vessel Gallery, York St John University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phrases from the incident report
 
Origin of call: Person (mobile)
 
-Property-Building-Non Residential-Entertainment and culture-Other cultural venue
 
Steam rooms\/sauna
 
Fire spread through gaps or voids in construction
 
Water tender
 
Thermal imaging camera
 
Axes\/Hammers\/Crowbars\/Croppers
 
roof involved on arrival<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this solo exhibition, Mathew Wayne Parkin uses installation, emotion, and photography to approach the idea of contemporary queer ruins. Through acts of re-staging, tracing, and documentation, the work engages with the ghost architecture of a gay sauna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photographs were developed in a darkroom using expired photo paper and alternative processing techniques. These images are housed within provisional wooden structures that function as architectural interventions\u2014shaping how bodies move through the gallery space and incorporating sensory elements. This architecture forms a kind of palimpsest, layering over a site already marked by adaptation and transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition forms part of a wider research project examining the aftermath of a fire at a Yorkshire gay sauna in the 2010s. It considers how to work with archival absence through strategies of fabulation, oral history, and video-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruin Me, all works, 2024
Wood, photographs printed on expired paper (Kentmere, Illford, Barclay, Jessops) with a range of process, space heaters, Patrick Cowley: School Daze (2013) played intermittently in the space, watercolour painting, mixed media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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