The spatial arrangement of the gallery over-determines and consumes the work to a degree that context becomes content.
The ideal form of the white cube is inseparable from the artworks exhibited inside of it. The white cube not only conditions, but also overpowers the artworks themselves. However, this emergence of context is enabled primarily through its attempted disappearance.
This project is a response to the work I made at The Burren. In this project I am broadening my ideas of context, yet staying true to a personal logic and system. The acts as camera lens zooming in and zooming out to capturing the entire picture. The work again starts from an installation. The installation, in comparison, then becomes one of reflecting and restaging the space. Instead of using the space as a surface to create a variety of trompeloeils within its design (the corner), I am creating a greater awareness of the space by indicating the intersecting planes of the white cube.
By introducing the paintings back into the context of the gallery they literally and metaphorically frame the gallery and its laws.
