Gary Simmons» installation inaugurated Culture Lab 2016, a two - day series of discussions, dinners, and public
projects centering around
different approach to
walls — architectural or ideological boundaries which both define cultural practice and limit understandings of
art, architecture, and other cultural undertakings.
Form is challenged throughout the exhibition — pieces such as Venn Diagrams (under the spotlight), where slightly overlapping theater lights with red and blue gels are
projected onto the
wall, or Eavesdropping, where a series of
different colored vintage drinking glasses are inserted into the
wall, as if suspended, are cheeky, playful, and adventurous — going against the expectation of conceptual
art as an exclusively stark monochrome, while remaining sparse and poignant.