BLACK & WHITE PROJECT SPACE for site-specific installations
Located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Black & White Project Space is a non-profit art organization committed to production, presentation and promotion of innovative and audience-engaging sitespecific installations otherwise in danger of under-representation.
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2010 – 2011 SEASON
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SPRING 2011 ISIDRO BLASCO / The End of Things
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Bare bones architecture: the essentials of the building; no doors or window frames, no plumbing. The structures are reminiscent of the living quarters where temporary workers stay during the summers they spent harvesting the fields in the southeast of Spain. Once the job is done, they are gone, moved to a different part of the land; but the architecture stays, as well as a few of the objects they leave behind: a chair, a plant, a box - these exhumed items suffused with melancholy, decay, and the prevalent sense of things ending. The End of Things installation reflects on this abandoned architecture but also extends backwards, repeating itself several times. The result is a maze; visitors are welcome to walk through the installation, just be careful where you step, after all, the whole project is askew. Isidro Blasco, New York, 2011
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WINTER 2010-2011 NATSU / Cradle – Island Universe
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Ancient Greeks called the Milky Way the "galaxias kuklos," or "milky circle" for its appearance in the sky. Greek myth describes the origin of the Milky Way as the goddess Hera is spilling her breast milk across the heavens to form a milky circle. In fact, the word “galaxy” comes from the Greek word for the Milky Way, which is derived from the words for mother’s milk (gala) and circle (kuklos). The milky-circle bead sculpture is hanging in the air to embrace the universe as its birthplace – nest – cocoon. Natsu, New York, 2010
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FALL 2010 DENNIS MAHER / End Wall
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End Wall is a compressed and expanded constellation of assembled residual space. Discarded shells, exposed guts, and salvaged skins are un-housed within the gallery’s courtyard basin. Consisting primarily of remnants from demolished houses, neglected domestic objects, and fragments from architectural models, the assembled detritus is left to acclimate as a lost/found field of marginalized matter. Dennis Maher, Buffalo, NY, 2010
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