Shelf Life: A Holotypic Taxonomy
23-26 September 2020

Cameron Edwards
Anastasia Burn
Thomas Stanton
Oliver Foster

Shelf Life: A Holotypic Taxonomy, an exhibition exploring the deconstruction and categorisation of the ‘humble’ yet ubiquitous plastic bread clip.

Shelf Life interrogates the role and purpose of the bread clip, speculating and interrogating what we understand these clips to be. Despite their mundanity, they are not as passive as we think. The exhibition plays on information, archival display and the concept of closure, sealing and re-usability: how far can one bread clip go?

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