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Our preoccupation is always the big thing, the main course, or end goal. The satisfaction of a thankless libidinal drive. How a production line tends towards speed; how a mediocre novel is organized; how the necessary and interminable work of maintenance is rendered invisible. At once emotionally freighted and depersonalized, the artists of ‘Prelude’ pose maintenance as ongoing, as open-ended question: what happens in preparation of the event, and who is responsible for doing it? In this exhibition, it is figuration that slows the gaze in service of the ‘everyman’ – the overlooked subject …