About the Exhibition

For its second exhibition, Periclo presented Heart Shaped Like a Baseball Bat, a solo show of new work by Alfie Strong. Projecting his dark sense of humour onto the everyday and mundane, Strong often uses folklore and mythology to strengthen his off-kilter viewpoints on the very basic elements of our day-to-day lives.

The exhibition was separated into two co-inhabiting parts. The first part took the form of an impressionistic set design for a section of unmade, imaginary film. The film would tell the viewer about the end of a journey for two glacially transported rocks in a wild Celtic landscape. The second part of the exhibition was a presentation of new work exploring a distracted and misunderstood experience of both everyday, inane objects and human interactions. These works formed a parallel display, sitting amongst the ‘set’. The two halves of the exhibition combined like apparitions of two events in one place, but from different times.

Artists

Alfie Strong