Shrink-Wrapped Storefront

John Hill
26. January 2015
Photo: John Hill/World-Architects

Storefront's 1993 Acconci-Holl facade is an operable one, made up of rectangular and other orthogonally shaped panels that open and close, depending on the exhibition and the weather. Many exhibitions interact with the facade in some way, usually via a graphic appliqué, but curators Sebastiaan Bremer and Florian Idenburg & Jing Liu of SO–IL have taken a unique approach and frozen the facade in one position. The open panels make themselves known by stretching the plastic that covers everything but a central doorway that gives access to the BLUEPRINT exhibition. Storefront director Eva Franch i Gilabert describes the installation:
 

Wrapped in time and in space, the Acconci-Holl façade opens its doors permanently to the works that –while present in the show by reference– are outside the gallery walls. The space looses its literal operational transparency to become a white, translucent icon of its curatorial aspirations. Rendering everything on either side as a world of shadows, the installation denies the spatial properties and the implications of the processional exit of the platonic cave towards a world of truth.

BLUEPRINT is on display until 21 March 2015.

Photo: John Hill/World-Architects
Photo: John Hill/World-Architects
Photo: John Hill/World-Architects
Photo: John Hill/World-Architects
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