HOLD A SPACE FOR ME | 2022
Role
Art Direction, Curatorial Design, Story Telling, Project Management
Collaborator
Jimena Muguiro
Role
Art Direction, Curatorial Design, Story Telling, Project Management
Collaborator
Jimena Muguiro
A dream for an alternative gallery. This project turns the home into a site for exhibiting experimental projects. While the traditional gallery acts as a void, Hold a Space for Me is filled with the textures of living, inviting the viewer into the complex world of being with objects.
Question
Can a gallery be loving?
Question
Can a gallery be loving?
The Event
SOBRE MESA
A Group Show
Apartment 10B
New York NY
A Group Show
Apartment 10B
New York NY
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June Lim
Carman Oldham
Ritika Kedia
Makiah Roberts
Thomas Yang
Yu Quihong
Shashwath Santosh
Krithi Nalla
Carman Oldham
Ritika Kedia
Makiah Roberts
Thomas Yang
Yu Quihong
Shashwath Santosh
Krithi Nalla
GOAL
Create a gallery rooted in community, context and collaboration.
The Designers
The Exhibited Pieces
REACHING OUT
Spreading the Word
The news of the opening spread like a whisper; friends, friends of friends and strangers stumbled into apartment 10B
Invitation Graphic
The RSVP
DREAMING UP A NEW GALLERY
Questions we asked ourselves
1. In what contexts and environments does the work feel most seen?
2. What makes a good conversation great?
3. Can a gallery be more than a void, can it be complicated, textured and lived in?
4. Where is the soul?
2. What makes a good conversation great?
3. Can a gallery be more than a void, can it be complicated, textured and lived in?
4. Where is the soul?
Showing Work in Context
The traditional gallery/musuem structure is intentionally decontextualised, erasing the inherent cultural context for which the objects were made. Does a gallery rooted in context uncover something we ordinarily miss?
Designing Interaction
The destruption of the environment in which art and design is consumed allows for new, foreign & inventive interactions with the pieces.
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The destruption of the environment in which art and design is consumed allows for new, foreign & inventive interactions with the pieces.
A Viewer’s Journey
PLANNING THE SHOW
PLANNING THE SHOW
Setting up a Timeline
Curatorial Planning Document
Gallery Layout
We placed each set of designed objects in little corners of the apartment, imbedding them into the lived environment. Toast on the table, brownies in the oven, vests hung from metal hangers, each designed object sat intimately within the landspace of architecture and conversation.
Transforming Space
Collectively, alongside the designers, we installed spotlights and hung fishing line. leaning on eachother to elevate the work, and build a gallery from our own hands.
Special thanks to:
Shaina Suri, Photographer
Jimena Muguiro, Co-Curator and Collaborator
With immesence gratitude to all of the designer that trusted us with their projects:
Ritika Kedia, Edible To-Do Lists
Thomas Yang, Ceramic Molds
Shashwath Santosh, Quantum Brownies
Krithi Nalla, Quantum Brownies
Yu Quihong, Film Photographs
June Lim, A Picnic Basket for Two, [A gift for you] ...for me
Carmen Oldham, Investigations of body, memory and transformation through beeswax
Makiah Roberts, A Picnic Basket for Two
Shaina Suri, Photographer
Jimena Muguiro, Co-Curator and Collaborator
With immesence gratitude to all of the designer that trusted us with their projects:
Ritika Kedia, Edible To-Do Lists
Thomas Yang, Ceramic Molds
Shashwath Santosh, Quantum Brownies
Krithi Nalla, Quantum Brownies
Yu Quihong, Film Photographs
June Lim, A Picnic Basket for Two, [A gift for you] ...for me
Carmen Oldham, Investigations of body, memory and transformation through beeswax
Makiah Roberts, A Picnic Basket for Two
Work Cited:
1 Bachelard, Gaston. 2014. The Poetics of Space. London, England: Penguin Classics.
2 O'Doherty, Brian. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition. United Kingdom: University of California Press, 1999.
3 Filipovic, Elena. “The Global White Cube.” ONCURATING. Accessed October 16, 2022. https://www.on-curating.org/issue-22-43/the-global-white-cube.html.
1 Bachelard, Gaston. 2014. The Poetics of Space. London, England: Penguin Classics.
2 O'Doherty, Brian. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition. United Kingdom: University of California Press, 1999.
3 Filipovic, Elena. “The Global White Cube.” ONCURATING. Accessed October 16, 2022. https://www.on-curating.org/issue-22-43/the-global-white-cube.html.