Last week I held another exhibition at the Fina Gallery titled, Cabinets.

I rolled approximately sixty lockers into the gallery space. My intention was to alter familiar environments, to encourage participatory art, and to provide an institutional critique of the art school. The title was inspired by ‘cabinets of curiosity,’ spaces that were popularized during the Renaissance for their displays of artifacts, often reflecting colonization and the social issues in their societies. In a similar archival way, the items in the fine arts lockers reflect the day-to-day lives of art students; they contain all sorts of odd items with the capacity to define what it means to be a student today. Having said that, the contents of the lockers were hidden from the viewer, only barely made visible through the slats.

Although I expected this exhibition to foster an interesting community within the art school, I found that it actually created a divide. The next few posts will be dedicated to scanned pages from the comment book.