Presently I am in a group show at Galerie Crystal Ball in Berlin.
Curated by Alena Williams and Manfred Kirschner, In a Shadow Box consists of drawings by twenty-seven artists. We all received transparencies and glass slides in the mail, drew on them with ink, and then mailed them back to be projected on the walls of the gallery.
{Susanna Bluhm, Untitled (In a Shadow Box 2), ink drawing on glass slide, 2010}
Images in the show are fleeting, interrupted, and altered by what came before or after. While most drawing shows feature works materially attached to the wall, with accompanying title notes, the dark space of this show offers no grounding for the work or the viewers moving through the space. The drawings float together and create an ephemeral installation in the “empty” space. I imagine people are walking away with odd memories of lines and shapes layered on top of each other in a way that will be different from person to person, animating internal shadow boxes.
{Susanna Bluhm, Untitled (In a Shadow Box 1), projected drawing on transparency, installed in Galerie Crystal Ball Berlin, 2010}
Love this!!
Oh wow – I love this! Such a cool idea! What a rad show idea. So glad you’re in it – Seattle representing in Berlin!!
thanks a+j. It is a great idea, huh? I think we should do something like this here!
Me too! And with a project like this – it wouldn’t even have to be curated. You could include hundreds of drawings/slides/etc. 30 seconds each = 120 images an hour? You could do it a million different ways but it sounds awesome!
yeah! i think it would be great outside too, at night. maybe at the sculpture park? sheets draped over the serra?
beautiful!