Elizabeth Price: Underfoot

The two-screen video work “Underfoot” uses archival imagery and digital animation to express the power dynamics at work within the organisation of knowledge in a library building. Here patterned carpets designed to imitate natural forms are transformed to suggest the potential crafting of a less hierarchical public space. “Sad Carrel”, a hand-tufted rug designed by Elizabeth Price, elaborates a vinyl record motif found in Glasgow’s Mitchell Library into a new composition. It alludes to the emergence of independent cultural forms in the urban spaces forged by de-industrialisation. The exhibition continues Price’s practice of questioning how archives represent, or fail to represent, social history and experience.