The increasing popularity of mixed - use and town center development means a lot of blurring
between public and private space.
Sometimes the line
between public and private space gets muddied, such as it did in New York's Zuccotti park during the Occupy Wall Street days.
Alex Prager's new exhibition Face in the Crowd, showcases large - scale color photographs of elaborately - staged crowd scenes and a film by the same name that explore the notion of the individual within the masses, the boundary
between public and private space and the psychological complexities of human interaction.
Influenced by architecture, the language of minimalism and geometric abstraction, the works are united by a sustained consideration of boundaries —
between public and private space, quantifiable form and immeasurable subjective experience.
Suh re-imagines and reconstructs his various homes and creates works of art that highlight the permeable boundary
between public and private space.
Curator Solange Farkas and co-curator Gabriel Bogossian present six video works and a set of drawings that explore the delicate breach
between public and private space and between past and future, reflecting on image making and its ties to politics, desire, and memory.
While the fans are readymade, the hand dryers are scaled up and inverted to underscore the balance
between public and private space and their counteractive functions: one is designed to extract air from a room and the other to generate it.
By recreating personal structures into something easily movable and detachable, Suh questions the boundaries
between public and private space, between a faraway birthplace and a current abode, and between the land of memories and actual places.
A bold endeavor breaking institutional boundaries, The Living Room examines the relationship
between public and private space, and addresses alternate modes of experiencing art within a museum structure.
The exhibition addresses questions around civic language and art's place alongside it, and the distinction
between public and private space.
A coffeehouse sits uneasily
between public and private space.
Architectural settings and abstracted figures inspired by the artist's biography serve as the central tenets of Do Ho Suh's practice, highlighting the porous boundary
between public and private space as well as notions of global identity, space, nomadism, memory, and displacement.
Combining limitless pattern and traditional motifs, Party re-negotiates the divisions made
between public and private space.
For the exhibition, the curators picked works that explore the delicate breach
between public and private space, on the one hand, and between past and future, on the other, re-writing homo - social attitudes of male individuals in an Arab context.
His work addresses social, political and communications issues, the relationship
between public and private space within social frameworks, and the investigation of channels of information and the ways in which they may be used to censor central information or promulgate ideas.
Liz Glynn's sculptural practice engages with issues of social ritual, class, and the dynamics
between public and private space.
Once again, Zhang delves into the difference
between public and private space, slyly manipulating the place betwixt individual experience and private memory.
Smith's dual roles as both a Pasadena housewife and an emerging artist in the mid-1960s literally collide in the prints, performing the tensions
between public and private space, and paid and unpaid labour.
Evolving through a range of mediums such as performance, video, installation, sound, and literature, her works consider the fluid border
between public and private space, and in so doing, challenge established conventions relating to the body, sexuality, power relations, and institutional spaces.
Deacon addresses the relationship
between public and private space, sensuality and the body, as well as memory, poetry, and language.
As a duo, «they're interested in the precarious forms of labor that result from capitalist structure, and the boundaries
between public and private spaces» in capitalist economies, according to the gallery's owner Vanessa Carlos.
Not exact matches
«The
space between private and public is very interesting, somewhere
between messaging
and public forums,» Denton said, adding he feels that people present a more «interesting
and constructive» aspect of themselves when they are speaking in
private or semi-
private discussions.
Asked Sunday at SXSW about what he will do post-Gawker, he said, «the
space between private and public is very interesting, somewhere
between messaging
and public forums.»
«The
space between private and public is very interesting, somewhere
between messaging
and public forums,» he said during a Sunday morning panel.
These studies suggest that the modern individual has to an important degree been the creation of a more sharply defined
public sphere from which the
private realm can be more clearly differentiated.8 Questions of interior
space then become more important, as do the relations
between these inner realities
and those that constitute the
public or external realms.
If current trends continue, we» re going to see a bi-modal system develop, with
public schools (including charter schools)
and ultra-elite
private schools monopolizing the education
space as the plethora of smaller
private and parochial schools that once fell
between them gradually fade away.
If
public school
and private school educators were to collaborate on creating a shared virtual
space, this would facilitate an exchange of ideas
between the educators
and their students.
Recreating her scene in a South London shopping centre, Wearing questions the boundary
between public and private protocol: «in a
public space... you do end up looking like a nutter», she explains, «because it's not acceptable».
Dividing
and subdividing the gallery, this installation both tackles
and expands upon two central themes: an architectural play with transparency
and concealment as well as an encounter
between an intimate
and private exhibition
space and a strikingly
public stage, which places «on view» the visitor's every movement.
Like the High Line or political art, architecture could stand for art's ability to navigate
between public spaces and private aspirations.
The correlation of a
private domestic
space to a
public natural
space initiates the dismantling of the barriers
between them
and brings to light the vulnerability, strength,
and perseverance of the human spirit.
Together, the film «Substance», the sculptural grid fragments,
and the object at the Metropolitan Museum engage a multi-layered conversation
between histories of exhibition sites; concepts of
public space and private property;
and the paradoxical legacies of historicism
and modernism in architecture
and design.
The screen frames the perimeter of the room, articulating its envelope as the boundary
between interior
and exterior,
public and private, bound
and unbound
space.
Opie's portraits operate in the
space between public and private persona, while posing questions about the subtle forms of voyeurism that portraiture permits.
The Lynden Sculpture Garden opened to the
public in May 2010,
and by choosing Inside / Outside as our inaugural theme, we hoped to initiate a dialogue
between the new indoor gallery
and the environment — both sculpture
and nature — beyond its walls; to explore Lynden's transition from a
private, domestic
space to a
public space;
and to define Lynden's new position within the art community.
Prominent themes explored by the work of 18 shortlisted artists included alienation in the digital age, the intersection
between private and public spaces, sensory experiences
and the transient nature of life.
Radically revising the line
between public and private, the exhibition
space was domestic
space,
and conventional assumptions about suitable artistic subject matter were discarded; the bathroom
and the dollhouse were appropriated as «appropriate» exhibition
spaces for feminist art.
Both his artwork
and his architecture are based on the social interactions
between people
and the blurring of
public and private space.
A Gentle Collapsing II breaks boundaries
between interior
and exterior,
public and private, natural
and manmade, all of which are themes that continue in the interior
spaces of the exhibition.
Spending so much time
between public and private, I found that what I considered to be an intimate
space was (
and still is) a
space shared by many.
Collaborators since 1995, Elmgreen & Dragset create unusual installations
and performance pieces that draw connections
between art
and architecture,
public and private space,
and a myriad of social issues.
The roof is a recurring form in her work; it is a
space between the sky
and earth,
between shelter
and danger,
between private and public.
The Notion of Family defines the lines
between private and public space, emotion, reality, memory,
and human complexity.
Susan Hefuna's mashrabiyas isolate the interstitial
space between public and private life that libraries so often occupy.
Theodoros is researching how architecture can create sculptural objects questioning the boundaries
between architecture
and sculpture, interior
and exterior
space,
private and public.
These ideas are further conveyed in his Hub works, where transitory, connecting
spaces between rooms, such as vestibules
and corridors, speak metaphorically about movement
between cultures
and the blurring of
public and private, as well as reflecting on the passage of the artist's own life.
Her work derives from a fascination with internal / external
spaces and the physical properties of materials: «The layers of process,
and tension
between private and public.
Her writings, films
and installations in
public space (video / billboard) analyze the connection
between these anxieties in
private and how they occur in the arena of everyday life (media / advertisement).
The exhibition is based on a series of inversions
and infiltrations: from transposing how the work of art is viewed in a collector's
private home into a
public space to physically shifting
and personalizing the sometimes passive viewing experience of a museum; from recreating aspects of the domestic interior to choosing artworks that speak about the psychic interior to new works that intentionally blur the relationship
between abstraction
and décor.
These boundaries exploit the thin gap
between the
public and the
private while trying to undermine the habitual in
public spaces through various actions while simultaneously attempting to extend the dialog of contemporary painting.