Concrete Fiction brings together two artists whose practices have unfolded side by side for decades, shaped by sustained conversation and shared interests. Two independent bodies of work by Genevieve Felix Reynolds and Bruce Reynolds establish a field in which archaeological time is registered through personal encounter. For both artists, ever concerned with the slippage between the 2D and the 3D, concrete is medium and proposition, surface and structure; associated with utilitarian frankness, monumentalism and cyclical creation and decay.

Bruce’s material practice is guided by the query: how might surface precede form? Hand-carved patterns and industrial textures establish rhythm and accrue architectural and figurative associations, coalesced from the shockwaves of history and transcontinental migration of ideas. With material objects he balances physical presence with subjective responses to history, experience and the intangible. Genevieve’s works are the culmination of archeological fieldwork on the banks of the Thames, where tides cyclically surface fragments from the contemporary to the Roman. Embedded and flattened, archaeological fragments are organised alongside architectural elements and personal artefacts, prioritizing relationality over taxonomy.