SLIP SPACE
Exhibition/Installation
Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC

Exhibition: 1994

This installation induced an estrangement of the gallery space at Storefront through an inspection of its floor. Typical gallery furniture - three stools, a bookshelf, and a table - were designed to tactically engage the basement. The basement slips to the gallery as the gallery leaks to the basement, undermining the binary of public-clean-gallery/private-dirty-basement produced by the floor. By suspending the conventional gallery furniture between these two adjacent spaces the floor is stretched into a site of exchange - an osmotic membrane. Presumed stability is questioned through the registration of fluctuations and slippages. Conceptual exchanges between the spaces rely on physical, tactile and corporeal experiences rather than strictly visual ones. The basement is left in the condition it was in prior to the installation. To straighten it up would be to lose the provocative tension exacted by the floor.