September 21-November 2, 2013
Place Gallery
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how long will you have to make clay pitchers
that have to be broken to enter you?
--Rumi
It's easy to categorize things in our lives or in the world as either falling apart or coming together, but these things are always happening in tandem. By paring them down to simplest form and bringing them into the same room, the juxtaposition illuminates their relation to one another, how they are two sides of the same coin. Construction and destruction are both part of the same unfolding story.
In destroying and mending objects there is an opportunity for reflection about the meanings and stories we attach to these objects. By transmuting the objects, there's the possibility of transmuting their stories as well.
It is an opportunity to glimpse into the possibility of a new organization of meaning. It is the way things are always breaking down and building up at the same time. It is the making and remaking of meaning. It is systems and stories that no longer work in their wholeness, things that have to be pieced together from what remains, from what has been worn and torn and shattered, loved into loose strands.
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Artist Talk at
Place Gallery
Saturday, November 2, 2013
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Photos from the exhibition:
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| Gallery Signage, Install |
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| Signage |
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| First Display of objects to be broken |
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| Install View, just before opening night |
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| Install View, just before opening night |
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| Object #1 |
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| Gabe Flores, gallery director preparing to break |
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| Sorting through the remnants |
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| mid-break |
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| Repairing Object #1 |
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| Repair Booth, opening night |
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| Brokenness |
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| Object #2 |
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| Object #2 |
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| Object #1, Repaired |
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| Object #1, Repaired |
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| Object #5 |
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| Object #5, Repaired |
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| Object #8 |
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| Object #8, Repaired |
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| Object #2, Repair notes |
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| Object #2, Repaired |
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| Object #3 |
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| Object #3, Repaired |
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| Install View |
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| Objects to be broken |
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| Objects to be broken |
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| Objects to be broken |
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| Repair booth |
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| Participant preparing to break |
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| Participant with object to be repaired |
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| Install view |
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| Repairing Object #8 |
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| Gallery View |
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| Gallery View |
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| Install View |
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| Object #7 needed to be taken home for further repair |
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| Object #10, Repaired |
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| Object #17, Repaired |
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| Object #13 |
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| The wall things were broken against |
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| Object #11, Repaired |
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| Install View |
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| Install View |