Never Odd or Even, 2010
Wood, steel, custom made books, ready-made objects, concrete, drywall
10ft x 10ft 11in x 11ft
Installed at Sullivan Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago.
Never Odd or Even is a room-sized installation in which an anonymous looking work station- a table, a chair, painted lumber and a saw horse- are physically doubled across an imaginary plane, as though through a mirror. Some objects intersect with their doppelgangers, some are nearly lost, resulting in new forms that increasingly tend toward abstraction. For the viewer this creates a feeling of paradox, an uncertainty about reality. The viewer is not tricked, they are not fooled into thinking a mirror is present, yet when talking about the piece they invariably use the vocabulary of illusion to describe their experience- this object is a reflection of that object. Though both are simply objects, their existence becomes interdependent. The title, like the installation, is a palindrome, and is taken from an invented book that is pinned beneath one leg of the table, which in the upside-down room creates an absurd reversal of gravity.
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