For this second presentation of A Perfect Sentence the gallery installation is dominated by a machine made by the artist in collaboration with Tom Cecil and Ruiari Glynn that hangs and rehangs this photographic archive for the duration of the exhibition. Operating according to an inscrutable algorithm, the machine selects and juxtaposes images from over a hundred framed works that are stored in stacks on the gallery floor. Appropriating the language of automation the machine mines and swarms; handling the individual art works like objects being processed, appraised, sorted, displayed and stored; thus transforming the space into sometime more like a factory than a gallery.

Commissioned and produced by Forma in collaboration with eight UK organisations, A Perfect Sentence culminates in a series of regional exhibitions, presented in different iterations: from framed works continuously mounted and unmounted from the gallery walls by a robotic arm trained to respond to patterns of audience attention, to a suite of screenprints, to outdoor poster exhibitions. An comprehensive publication of the project will be published by Loose Joints in June 2023.