pulley system for a plait that weighs of bronze – Lily Krempel – 11th to 26th April 2025

Join us at Market Gallery on April 11th 5.30-8pm for the opening of Lily Krempal’s pulley system for a plait that weighs of bronze, the third iteration of our Window Series. The exhibition will then be open to the public every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday of April.

The sculptural apparatus mimics the ancient model of a pulley system in the process of evenly distributing weight. The pulleys balance the weight of the cast bronze plait, producing a ‘lightness’ within the mechanism – touching on both the mind’s burdens and the strategies we create to bear them.

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The exhibition will take place in our space at 13 Ross Street, which is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible gender-neutral toilet. We have travel and childcare bursaries available, get in touch on market@marketgallery.org to request them.

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Lily Krempel is a sculptor based in Glasgow. Her practice explores the stories of objects and processes of object-making – what an object might reveal about its maker and how its function might define a person who uses it. Drawing from histories of functional and decorative mechanisms, tools, and ornaments, she pieces together and fabricates component artefacts to understand intersecting experiences, stories, and thoughts. Lily incorporates herself as a maker into her sculptures, using – for example – the measurements of her body, her age at the time of making, geographical coordinates related to her lived experience, and maps traced by the count of her footsteps.

Photographs by Erika Stevenson