SIESTA PINWHEEL

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Curated by Stephanie Mann and Lewis den Hertog, "SIESTA PINWHEEL" happened within a painted drawer. White drawers become another white cube within the space.  Another layers being added up by the fact that viewer is not just working by, WE HAVE TO OPEN IT TO SEE THE WORK!  

Doraemon (Yes, the magic cat) decided to put a time machine in the drawer, the space has another function to fix what happened in the past, a mean to get away from reality.  Or a place where nostalgia being kept, a collective memory concern with time and space.  

Memory is a contingent stream, co-exist with our very present.  By the very action of looking into the drawer, to pull it out, interaction between give - take altered within this CO2 space.  

You can't lay down your memory by Tejo Remy© him

Dutch minimalist designer Tejo Remy put up a piles of used old drawers in NY, new york city where the cop sucks, in the name of Dada " You Can't lay down your memory" by acclaiming "a new value system based on economy, simplicity, and responsibility... celebrated ingenuity and poverty of means and elevated them to an aesthetic philosophy; idealism and moralism were the politically correct attitudes of the day (Text by MOMA) "




So, how about Siesta Pinwheel?

In order to see what is inside the drawers, we need to pay extra work to it, viewers feeling the need of being polite, the togetherness and politeness. You can't just walk away whenever you feel like to see next work. 

The relationship between audiences and objects become reciprocal. There are extra moments of an viewing experience, Curiosity being raised, the vibration between subjects and objects was reinforced. white paint defamiliar our sense towards the space, the pure, neutral feeling somehow altered by the fact that the object we all engaging with has the unspeakable communal memory.  Nostalgia became a collective action.  

This exhibition is portable, a moving exhibition, a travellers tale. when it s presented in the different spaces will certainly generates different meaning, regards to the time and space, enact with different public. Due to the time and space, the engaging public become varies so does the interaction alters which generate an ongoing conversation.  It reminds me of the Skulptur Projekt Münster, which happened within the whole city and the work of art requires actions which being motivated by curiosity, travel, a notion of destination, and discovery.  


     Somehow the notion of open call could be fearful, the communication become another curatorial concern during the process.  Incidents will happen by any kind of issues, like Alice Bradshaw & Bob Milner decided to go on holiday at the end.  But somehow the process being documented, and presented within Siesta Pinwheel, which adds up the feature of achieve, documented process of the event.