Exhibition: Index 2016 at Gallery 295 Vancouver, BC Dates: Summer 2016 From the exhibition essay by Patryk Stasieczek: In a cabinet built into a villa in the former Czechoslovakia in 1931, Lucien Durey has researched a particular architectural space. This work builds on a political lineage in a time that spans the ownership of the site by two private hands, which also bookends a period of ownership by the Communist Party. The focus is Cabinet, a functional space built into the frame that houses both objects and ideology. The photographs are distant from another in their materiality, yet are superimposed together as an active photographic installation. Here a cabinet takes on new forms where objects are exchanged, replaced, and moved as an echo to the private purposes embedded within two images that reflect one space through time.
Images: Installation and detail views of Cabinet Documentation by Mike Love
