What do we have when attempting to be aware of our position in the system of the world? How do we attempt to be concerned with what we are making and the legacy of those things we leave behind?

What does it mean to be European?

What did it used to mean?

What will it mean in the future?

What are the physical remnants that people will be able to recognise as european and if not just a set of ideas what else represents it apart from colonial decay?

In the weeks leading up to Minimum Crisis, Sam has been discussing notions of European identity with Connor Brazier who has written an essay as an introduction to the exhibition.

Sam Hewland’s Minimum Crisis investigates boundaries in shape and form of architectural history and political histories that have shaped notions of what Europe looks like today. Using references of physical structures and the collaging of imagery, the work looks at physical notions surrounding architecture and troubles with european architectural histories.

Minimum Crisis is the second part of the ‘Nottingham month’ of arebyteLASER’s 2017 programme titled hotel generation - a series of paired exhibitions by a generation of young artists from around the UK, all responding to either contemporary Ordinaryism, information overload, collective practice or reacting to the ‘extreme present’.