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The Gallery is a Sort of Facility | Satellite Project Space

Date:
Friday, July 12, 2019
Time:
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location:
Satellite Project Space
121 Dundas St.
London, ON
Cost:
Free
Lydia Santia

Lydia Santia’s project The gallery is a sort of facility experiments with the gallery as a storage space; a place to interrupt the pragmatic act of storing objects, using the viewer’s gaze: 
“Practical storage denotes a problematic relationship between human and object, where responsibility over the object being stored can be relinquished for an indeterminate amount of time. I assert that the practical act of storing an object suspends that object in animation; it does not relinquish ownership or responsibility over that object, but it does temporarily forfeit the object’s ability to act in a relationship with a person. Storage is often seen as a temporary absolver of consumer guilt, and usually does not account for the physicality of the objects therein until they must become garbage. This creates a scenario where the objects being stored are invisible, useless, yet continue to accumulate until a threshold is reached where they must be contended with en masse.” 
By allowing a spectatorship into a storage space of already defunctionalized items, the artist aims to highlight the importance of that intermediate time period.
July 8-12, 2019
Gallery hours: Mon 11am-3pm, Tue 12-6pm, Wed 12-6pm
Reception: Friday, July 12, 5-7pm
Satellite Project Space
121 Dundas St, London
Image: Lydia Santia, Untitled, detail, 2019, office chair, bungee cord, step stool, paint, bolts

Host:
Satellite Project Space
Contact:
Julia Beltrano
jbeltra3@uwo.ca
Event Type:


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