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Constantly imagining a gallery as a place
where art lives, this autumn the SI is pleased to present
a suite of exhibitions that will saturate our multiple spaces,
featuring two solo shows in the main space and the lounge
but also smaller projects for the new SI rubber bar, the library
and the lobby. The two solo shows of JONATHAN MONK and ALEKSANDRA
MIR will be complemented by works of younger artists, DECLAN
CLARKE, ISABELL HEIMERDINGER and SHIRANA SHAHBAZI.
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| Aleksandra
Mir, study for Tokyo Street Signs, 2003 |
Jonathan
Monk, 'Today is Just a Copy of Yesterday (Holiday)', 2002,
set of 40 slides, courtesy Galeri Nicolai Wallner |
JONATHAN MONK's exhibition Time And Or Space
features a selection of works combining looped 16mm films,
slide projections and text pieces. Time And Or Space remains
true to its title, exploring the mechanisms of marking points
of time and place. Monk’s work is an excavation of nostalgia
with a tinge of melancholy and the eye of a clever conceptualist.
Opposing urges meet as Monk looks to the past, sampling wistful
or whimsical images and appropriating the canons as he sets
out to organize his audience to meet again, in the future,
with his wall-based text works, called Meeting Pieces. As
his viewers we feel an anticipation to remember these proposed
times and places because somehow Monk’s future seems
as if it could be an ideal combination time and space.
ALEKSANDRA
MIR’s project is also an attempt to render travel a
more poetic and also more practical experience. Naming Tokyo
Part II is the second phase of a project activated earlier
this year at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Mir has invited
artists, poets, politicians and curators to suggest street
names for small patches of the Tokyo street-scape. From these
names, Mir has created a second generation of the map with
images of Tokyo neighborhoods and the list of proposed names.
This second map is presented by the SI. Though the task does
impose a western classification system on this already Americanized
Asian mega-city, Mir’s hopes for the project are sincere,
as she aims to mass-produce these user-friendly maps. Naming
Tokyo becomes a specially New York project at the SI as Mir
has worked with the New York Department of Transportation
to produce 30 NY-style street signs with a selection of the
proposed names, which will be installed in the lounge as a
sort of jungle/jumble of artists’ street names.
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