Patricia L. Boyd
Patricia L. Boyd (b. 1980, United Kingdom, lives and works in London, UK) is an artist whose installations, sculptures, photography and videos often find form through an inquiry into their own production and presentation. Her recent works have utilised overlooked, used or discarded materials from her own life that, recontextualized, have significance for a broader interrogation of social history, power and gender.
Boyd has had recent solo exhibitions at Secession, Vienna; Kunstverein München; 80WSE, New York; Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York; Heidi, Berlin; Front Desk Apparatus, New York; Christian Andersen, Copenhagen; and Cell Project Space (with Rosa Aiello), among other venues. There have been substantial presentations of her work in group exhibitions at Kunstverein Düsseldorf; Fluentum, Berlin; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; the 13th Taipei Biennial, Taiwan; Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Amant, New York; and the 13th Lyon Biennale. In 2022 Boyd published an artist’s book, Ceiling Blues, with Revolver Publishing.
Contents in the Storage Problems
2025
Mixed media installation
Courtesy of the artist
The installation presents two corners filled with cardboard moving boxes – worn, repaired, and reused – acting as both vessels and shifting structures. For Boyd, these boxes are more than storage; they embody movement, transformation, and instability, mirroring the fluid nature of interiority. They were once filled with her personal belongings and transported across multiple locations, yet within this exhibition they become reconstructions rather than static objects.
As containers, they hold meaning, offering both protection and the possibility of rupture, reflecting the interplay between the private and the public. Although now positioned as art, they remain in transit – objects in flux, with elements migrating between boxes, removed, exchanged, or reconfigured. Boyd’s use of these materials underscores the precariousness of stability, where even seemingly fixed structures remain subject to change.