Rachel Fäth's 'Honesty Box' at Ivory Tars, Glasgow: Sculpture, Video and Administrative Critique

Rachel Fäth's first UK solo exhibition, Honesty Box, ran at Ivory Tars in Glasgow from 5 September to 11 October 2026. The show centres on I feel soon I will fall into you (2026), three steel and found-glass sculptures whose burgundy-brown, grey-edged pages resemble weighty dictionaries resting as weather-worn tombs. Fäth fabricates work in community welding workshops and teaching environments rather than a fixed studio; the sculptures combine scrap metal from the Glasgow Sculpture Studio, where she held a workspace throughout August, with disused Pyrex lab equipment carried from Hunter College in New York to Glasgow. Also included is Content of Room (2026), a five-minute looped video montage of photographs taken by a valuation company contracted to auction goods left behind when Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts entered liquidation; bouncing in cartoonish sequence, the images inventory tables, chairs, a milk frother, a stocked fridge and a half-full bin. For Honesty Box, Fäth asked Ivory Tars to negotiate with its landlord about de-installing the gallery's shopfront windows, raising questions about legal agreements with the landlord and insurers. The request succeeded: the windows became table-like plinths filling the space and holding the steel and glass assemblages aloft, uniting sites of production and display. The exhibition argues that contractual and administrative terms governing labour and value can be critically retooled.