Performance is such a thing that galleries have even started using the vernacular of theatre to bring the immediacy of performance into
the static space of a gallery, as Luxembourg & Dayan are doing with their «Melodrama, Act 1», and «Melodrama Act 2» shows in the London and New York galleries respectively.
Not exact matches
Selected solo exhibitions include: The Curtain Breathed Deeply, Artspace, Sydney, 2014; Handbag Hammer Meditation, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, 2013;
Static Ballet, Sarah Cottier
Gallery, Sydney, 2013; She came over signing like a drainpipe shaking spoon infused mixers, a public work for Christchurch Art
Gallery, 2013; Turnstile Heaped on Pour Down, St Paul St
Gallery, AUT Auckland University, 2012; and BIGHEAD GARBAGEFACE GUARDS GHOST DERR SONATA, Contemporary Project
Space, Art
Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2009.
Here the sculptures are not perceived individually as a series
of static figures, but rather as a circulation
of the same figure through the
space, leaving traces throughout the
gallery, as if one would see all the phases
of a movement simultaneously.
It is a
static capture
of the laminar flow
of time on the
gallery wall, which may turn in real
space into a mountain, valley, rock lake, or desert.