Cardboard Vehicle By Chris Gilmour

Through his career and artistic development, there has been a progression in the choice of objects portrayed by Gilmour, which go from smaller domestic items (like the moka or the typewriter) to objects which are larger and belong to a broader cultural context (the Fiat 500, the Lambretta and, more recently, James Bond's iconic Aston Martin).
Gilmour's choice of objects has always been based on their calling up memories and emotions connected to our experience of these (everyday) things. Since this is both a visual and conceptual work, Gilmour chooses objects for their visual appeal and cultural resonance, but he also usually chooses objects which imply an action or interaction of some sort. The interaction of the viewer with the works seems to function as a kind of short circuit between an implied action and the impossibility of performing it: one immediately wants to open the car door, or turn the wheel on the bike, but of course one can’t. This immediacy is important to enter Gilmour's work, to grab the viewer.