David Ersser
David Ersser creates seemingly cold, meticulous reproductions of Hi-Fi equipment, turntables and keyboards, table-saws and ladders. The thin wooden cable running down from the stereo to the floor and to a sculpted plug, is made up of short sections of straight balsa to give the impression of a curve. From a distance these works appear at first flawless, however scrutiny reveals the makers hand. This hand is the hand of an enthusiast model maker fervently gluing late at night in his garage. This is his practice, the attentive re-fabrication of every day objects; by exhaustively re-creating almost any object in view he builds up still-lifes, then multiplies them into environments, ultimately re-locating rendered places. This mode of production and subject matter evoke the nerds hermetic and frantic DJ-ing in his bedroom. Lifeless and slightly wonky, his facsimiles are drawings, objects, and aspirations made solid. They become the phantom wooden cousins of his imagination, just as the teenage geek fetishises the stereo equipment of his dreams.