January 19 to April 7, 2024
Stockroom pulls from the hidden spaces of the gallery. It calls from the quiet resolve of the back room, the storage space, the depository. It recalls the space where one stores or ignores the archive (the lesser archive, the lower archive), the space that holds the administrative reserves, the reams of paper, the ink cartridges, the publications, the outdated marketing material. It is a hiding place. A dormant space. A forgotten space. It is a second-hand container for the everyday, for the things that are to be disregarded but not discarded, the things that are outdated but not obsolete. It is a transcendental space where objects emerge from sanctioned futility to be rearticulated in the now.
Stockroom draws attention to the oddities, the excess, the obsolete. It is a new container for how we might “see” and “use” these invisible items. The objects on display are choreographed as an epistle of and to craft. Assemblages of tapestries, vessels, and found objects become the tools for social architecture. The space is cut with screens and fabric shrouds, allowing us to peer into the storage room and view the things that lie waiting to be made useful again.
—Suzanne Carte