Exhibitions
Vera's Room (3rd iteration), Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA, 2005
Sent from London to Slought for assembly, including diagrams for the making of the kaolin Cones according to my notebook: Mode d’Emploi.
A fairly large crate: full of objects made and found, anecdotes, and aide-memoires; adjunct to a nomadic life - ready to be taken out, arranged, re recomposed/re performed always and everywhere - affirming personal experiences, and, connectivity with the experience of others.
Elements details:
Vera’s room is a generic room [life] space containing: found objects, some furniture, handmade objects of paper and kaolin, and an (invisible) repetitive sound recording. On the table is a copy of a ‘Refusal of Entry’ (No Right of Appeal) document.
All the elements are unified by the whiteish colour of the kaolin being an off - white matter, and, through the ambient sound (recording).
It is of variable dimensions - and for the instructions to construct the Vera’s Room installation - see my notebook: Mode d’ Emploi, created on occasion of the exhibition at Slought Foundation, Philadelphia.
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The Slought presentation of Vera’s Room installation was given in collaboration with Helene Cixous. The exhibition, and the event of Helene’s talk Ex-Cities was published as a book by Slought Foundation Contemporary Arts, images by Maria Chevska.
In association with the launch of a monograph (Vera’s Room, The Art of Maria Chevska) published by Black Dog Publishing in 2005, including the K-Notebook with a text by Helene Cixous.