Building on Selenitsch’s interest in game play, Structural Goals presents a series of works that can loosely be described as undersized, multi-coloured architectonic soccer goals. While recreational objects such as spinning tops, kites and Frisbees have all previously featured in his practice, the representation of ‘goals’ – in the form of basketball hoops, targets and cricket stumps – has become a key motif. Here Selenitsch playfully modifies his “goals” to create a game with no obvious rules; an art-game – or cognitive-game – where the act of goal-orientation is the phenomena being scrutinised.

Selenitsch’s constructions are curious forms: familiar yet released from any identifiable function. Whether hung inwardly on the gallery wall or immobilised and venerated atop custom tables, the structures exist both as model and final product. They relate as much to the language of building schemes as they do to goals themselves. Creative alterations to the ‘goal’ structure such as extra ‘posts’ or ‘legs’ and other lyrical moments formalise this in-between status.