SO-AD was commissioned by the Mattress Factory Art Museum to create a site-specific installation for their exhibition series, "Gestures". Our installation consisted of 1000 sheets of corrugated plastic stacked in a previously neglected doorway separating two parallel galleries.
The construct subverted assumptions regarding proximity and perception by negating the ability to gain further information by moving closer to the object.
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"An exceptional work -- made more so by its understated quality -- is "P.O.V." by SO-AD, a minimalist grid that transforms a doorway, playing with issues of architecture, space, perspective ("points of view"), even the positioning of the lenses through which one sees the world."
- Mary Thomas "Art Review: Sweeping 'Gestures' brings together powerful images." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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"But most ingenious is the work of SO-AD...who filled the entirety of a doorway with three-inch-wide strips of corrugated plastic sheeting. The stacked strips of sheeting produce a most interesting visual effect when looking through them at various distances."
Kurt Shaw "Site-specific exhibition makes good use of Mattress Factory's fourth floor." Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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STATUS / COMPLETED 2005
LOCATION / PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
GALLERY / THE MATTRESS FACTORY ART MUSEUM
CURATORS / MICHAEL OLIJNYK, GRAHAM SHEARING
PRINCIPALS / DAVID BURNS, ABIGAIL GRAY
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