The radical project 'an Exhibit' emerged from a decade of testing the formats and possibilities
of exhibition-making. A collaboration between two artists Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore
and a critic and curator Lawrence Alloway the show was simultaneously an investigation into
abstract environmental forms and a participatory experiment that would fundamentally transform
the role of the viewer. Comprehensive documentation of the original exhibition is presented
alongside coverage of other key projects from the era and contextualised through the detailed
analysis of Elena Crippa. Archival texts conveying the different voices of 'an Exhibit's three
creators and an essay from the time by David Sylvester are accompanied by new contributions by
Martin Beck Owen Hatherley and Lucy Steeds. This book addresses the diverse legacies of 'an
Exhibit'- from its reverberations in contemporary art practice to its influence on urban design
and social housing.
