STOWAWAY is pleased to present Linger, Longer, a solo presentation by London based David Shamie, opening July 20th from 5-8PM.

In Linger, Longer David Shamie presents 3 sculptures made from found and manufactured materials. Shamie’s work interrogates the utilitarian ethos of contemporary life by extracting the aesthetic from the useful. Seen through a framework that unites fetishism and death drive, his work draws out the thanatotic elements which lurk and brood around us, concealed within our everyday objects. By recontextualizing consumer products as primary building materials, our sense of their inherent value and coherence is challenged. This play with commodities draws out the darkly alluring, but ultimately useless, qualities that we fill our world with.

David Shamie (b. 1994) is a graduate of the Goldsmiths College, University of London MFA program. He exhibited in London at Alice Black, Xxira Hi, Generation and Display among others.