Alexandra Mawimbi's two-dimensional works sit in a peculiar tension. They are flat, bounded by the rectangle of paper or canvas, yet they behave as if…
Corners are everywhere and nowhere. They belong to the background of architecture, a quiet geometry that holds walls apart and rooms together, yet they rarely…
For most of the history of Western painting, the ceiling was the place where artists were granted their most extravagant permissions. The walls held portraits,…
A floor piece changes the terms of looking. Rather than presenting an artwork at eye level, safely separated from the body by a wall or plinth, it occupies the…
For centuries the glass vitrine has stood between the viewer and the thing viewed, a quiet negotiator of intimacy and distance. In contemporary practice, this…
A performance begins when a body steps into a space and ends when it leaves. Between those two points lives an artwork that cannot be held in a vitrine,…
A work of art begins in conversation. Long before it is photographed for a catalogue or hung in a domestic hallway, it has been shaped by a thousand private…
A museum storage room is usually understood as a place of delay. Objects wait there between exhibitions, conservation treatments, loans, acquisitions, and…
A basement gallery changes the terms of looking. The visitor leaves behind the broad, even brightness associated with a white cube and enters a compressed…