Dimensional data

Curator: Richard Hamilton's "Dimensional data" presents us with a series of tires, rendered almost as technical drawings. What strikes you first about this work? Editor: A feeling of cool detachment, almost clinical. The tires, normally symbols of movement and speed, are presented as objects of study. Curator: Hamilton, fascinated by mass production, elevates the humble tire. We see the process, the making visible in the wireframe construction. It challenges our notion of what’s worthy of artistic representation. Editor: The tire treads become potent symbols of grip, control, and even the road itself – a potent modern icon, dissected and displayed. Each pattern evokes different associations, different journeys. Curator: Absolutely, and the act of rendering them in this manner, stripped of context, forces us to reconsider their design, their function, and their inherent materiality. It's a consumer object turned art object through careful, almost forensic, examination. Editor: It is interesting how Hamilton shows the tire as something so common, but also so powerful. It definitely gives you something to think about! Curator: It is a way of making the ordinary extraordinary.