The House Project (1994)

Penelope Stewart is an artist, curator/writer and publisher whose multi-disciplinary practice encompasses expansive architectural installations/interventions, alternative photography, artist books, and works on paper. Re-current themes address notions of cultural memory, of time and space and a considered approach to the relationship between objects, architecture, gardens, landscape and the places between – places to intervene, inhabit and above all activate. Whether it has been historic sites such as Musée Barthète, a small museum in France, or a museum like the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY or the deconstruction/reconstruction of a 19 th century book of botany using cyanotype, her intentions are to create sensory spaces, haptic experiences, transforming our perceptions and possible readings of space, time and memory.

The House Project 1994, site specific installation kitchen- a tailored a organza skin over a kitchen at 12 Washington Ave TorontoThe viewer was encouraged to enter this room and to experience the space created. The organza acted as skin, membrane to the space…a space that is always active and the site of transmission.The ceremonial appearance, the evacuation of all dirt and the obsessiveness of the manufacturing, emphasize the mechanisms of social control and expresses the artificiality, the precariousness andthe socially imposed nature of women’s invisibility.

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