my favorite piece in the show, gil wildman’s “house says” installed throughout the building. gestures: intimate friction is up through the end of november.
(pablo garcia at the mattress factory’s 1414 monterey space)
In an exchange with its virtual self, one window multiplies to two. The line drawing on the wall is an illusion, made to appear in line with the real window when seen from the entry door. Its virtual makeup—lines drawn on the wall—projects back onto the original window with corresponding lines. For a brief moment, as you enter the room, the virtual window achieves equality with its original, as the original slips away from reality towards its illusory reflection.
(nick liadis at the mattress factory’s 1414 monterey space)
Spaces with music change frenetically; sound cannot accumulate and is doomed to the passage of time. The walls attempt to contain—to capture it, but sound is unrestrained and resists arrest. It fluctuates…
These ropes crowd the space, give it scale, and create a palpable form within it. Movements shift these ropes and the overall volume flexes and changes, indicating impermanence, like the moving sounds of the music, as you maneuver about.
(ling he at the mattress factory’s 1414 monterey space)
What good is a playful dream, a wish, if it stays laden down inside?
The forest of balloons with wishes written on their ribbon strings asks visitors to release one of their brethrens, and replenish the vacancy with their own wish balloons.This metabolism of anonymous request and generosity keeps refreshing the atmosphere within the confinement of the room, gaining a confusion of role between the displayed and the viewer, a wisher, a suppressor, a granter.
