exhibited as part of The Shape of Things to Come, September 2009
curated by Beatrice LEANZA
If we hold true to Boris GROYS' claim that we have entered the contemporary age as the simultaneous performance of seeing and showing, then let us again take a look at the book by its cover. For this work, the windows of both the main exhibition space and the office of the gallery space have been tinted with 3-D spectacle filters, the ordering of the red and blue at right and left respectively an indication that it is not the viewer who is watching the spectacle, but the world outside the windows which views us in technicolour effect. Next to the window of the office, a column of paper glasses reminiscent of those of a science fiction nostalgia hang delicately perched on thin wires, singularly facing the viewer as a floating population of blank stares. The paintings that normally hang in the office for sale or for decor have been hung repacked, hung in a limbo state of display and/or preparation for going elsewhere. All of the books originally lining the wall of the space have been turned with their titles hidden from view, leaving them distinguishable only as pressed vertical lines of white and coloured pages.
The installation and intervention created in the office of 140 sqm Gallery makes a show of our expectations in perception, whereby spectacular effect is purposely dulled and we are left with nothing but tinted glass, a question not of what we see in the world but what it sees of us.
The installation and intervention created in the office of 140 sqm Gallery makes a show of our expectations in perception, whereby spectacular effect is purposely dulled and we are left with nothing but tinted glass, a question not of what we see in the world but what it sees of us.
