19th June to 6th July 2024
London
The show was thought in response to the space and is to be read as one in-situ installation consisting of both works and "interventions" within the room. The room itself, painted in magnolia, bears the typical characteristics of non-places, such as commercial spaces and public buildings like schools and doctors' offices. Playing with the expectations, comfort, and discomfort that arise from the "neutrality" of such places, the work explores the idea of non-places. This is encapsulated in the objects present in the room, as their function is disabled, relegating them to a status of non-objects, where only the visible marks and traces of tape suggest notions of presence and absence.
“The room
The show takes place in a small windowless space, a box. Juliette warns me: the room has no quality, per se.
Juliette qualifies: from a room one could not ask for less; it has four walls, a door and a ceiling, and one light.
Here we are asking more of this room.”
PDF version of the exhibition document written by Tosia Leniarska here
I have also written a longer essay which I showed for One Century ABC in Turku, you can read the full essay here.
