FURNISHING ASSUMPTIONS
July 13 - August 19, 2006
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PRESS RELEASE
Furnishing Assumptions aims to explore the use of furniture as subject in media ranging from painting and photography to sculpture. Focusing in particular on works which raise issues beyond mere representation, the show will look at artists who have used furniture as a conduit to air debates around art history, artistic interpretation, sociological documentation, psychological profiling, and form versus function. Featured artists are: Richard Artschwager, Gille Barbier, Alex Clausen, Doug Hall, Candida Höfer, Julie Huette, Roy McMakin, Vik Muniz, Scott Oliver, Javier Piñón, and Doris Salcedo. The works range from Alex Clausen's photographic enquiry into the sculptural possibilities of domestic furniture to Roy McMakin's exploration of the formal qualities of objects more usually dismissed as functional and Doris Salcedo's documentation of her Istanbul Biennial project for which 1,550 chairs were piled in a gap between two buildings, a poignant metaphor for the price of progress.