What's yours is mine

What’s yours is mine brings together Roisin Byrne and Duncan Wooldridge’s interests in the historical and conceptual consequences of artistic gestures – what an artwork makes possible, whether planned or unforeseen. Depicting the shift in art practice where ideas become common property that can be invoked, adapted and absorbed, both artists are interested in seeking out what lies beyond the dominant theorisations of appropriation.

In What’s yours is mine, both Byrne and Wooldridge focus on the secondary sources that have become a dominant source for obtaining information about the world. This intertextual material, mediated through websites and search engines, as well as books and other printed matter, creates fragmented, often unreliable or contestable narratives that the reader is obliged to piece together. Through different methods and using different tools, both artists develop important questions relating to access, possession and ownership.

Wooldridge presents a new work from his ongoing series DIY IKB, in which he attempts to match Yves Klein’s infamous International Klein Blue using commercially available paint-mixing machines. In Goldenie Brown, Byrne presents for the first time her tan and a line: In exchange for 4 nights in an undisclosed European destination of her choice, a work of art is removed and a copy made.