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Contributor to 'An exchange with Sol leWitt'

Lent’s research and teaching has been deeply influenced by artist Sol LeWitt who was known for his exchanges of artwork with other artists. This act of exchange was an integral part of LeWitt’s conceptual practice and likewise has helped Lent to develop the idea of exchange within a greater research framework. LeWitt’s ability to draw out form through an idea or series of directives has been an impulse in much of Lent’s work and research. The work selected for the exhibition was an isolated photographic instance from a journey on a train. Mobility being key to Lent’s examination, the piece was at the forefront of his research: the image presented a space that was both interior and exterior (of the train car) and depicted a sort of opaqueness of meaning in the experience of mobility. This exhibition was organised in collaboration with Cabinet Magazine, New York and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and exhibited almost 700 artists in total (http://cabinetmagazine.org/events/LeWitt_all_artists.pdf).

The ideas explored in this exhibition were an impetus to Lent’s practice-led PhD, which he will be awarded shortly. This has been evidenced in his recent photographic installations in which extensive collections of serial images of journeys are arranged in a gallery space in order to investigate the disappearance of experience into representation.