Portal to future contemporary art wing, featuring view of as yet uncollected art works
April 14th to September 3rd, 2007, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, exhibited as part of Dé-con-structions, curated by Josée Drouin-BriseboisInstallation shots:
Video stills:
excerpted from Dé-con-structions press release:
Vancouver-born Tricia Middleton, who has been based in Montreal since 2002, created Portal to future contemporary art wing featuring view of as of yet uncollected artworks for the exhibition, to effectively open a simultaneously physical and imaginary space beyond the museum walls. This work consists of unconventional materials with fragments recycled from her past artworks. Through a process of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction, Middleton created a sizeable hole in one Gallery wall as a portal to an imaginary gallery located within the wall’s interior. This demolition site is both believable and fantastical, filled with considerable debris, glitter, and unexpected materials. A rear-projected video, visible through the hole, features a hypnotic series of cuts and pans of the exhibition space superimposed with brief images of fictional works of art that “exist,” she says, “outside our current notions about what is and is not possible for an artwork or gallery space.”
click here for full press release
PDF of exhibition catalogue coming soon
