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condensations
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CONDENSATIONS @ Centre CLARK, Montreal, May 23 - June 22, 2024
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The exhibition aimed to activate "condensation" as a metaphorical method for processing an increasingly complex reality. How might modes of condensation, including qualities like densification, collapse, pressure, and phase change, be felt in the gallery? Can a felt experience of condensation enable alternate or emerging considerations for understanding complex systems that function invisibly and systemically in this moment?
"Suspended from the ceiling, the installation resembles a drop ceiling whose infrastructure has been exposed. The structure, which transforms the architecture of the gallery by dividing it in half horizontally, towers over us with a formal lightness: its frail frame of hardwood offcuts in maple, oak, and walnut is wrapped in a fine fibreglass and plastic mesh that holds tiny expanded polystyrene granules that softly filter the light, like sunlight seeping through a cloud. At the heart of this construction is an air conditioning unit that has been turned on, and, as condensation is inherent to its operation, it becomes the installation’s engine. While the air conditioner should help our bodies feel more comfortable, it fails to do so here."
"In Condensations, the gallery’s confined atmosphere is divided into gradations; we move from cold to warm, from diffuse to saturated, from permeable objects to contained objects. While the boundaries between the body and the work are blurred, Moore hopes to draw attention to the complex nature of the systems that contribute to our comfort."
-excerpts from text by Manel Benchabane
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Condensations (when the light thing becomes heavy) , 2024
Off-cut maple, oak, & walnut, salvaged fibreglass reinforcement mesh, salvaged protective plastic mesh, salvaged polystyrene foam granules/ bean bag chair filling, leaves, cotton string, plastic cord, cardboard, salvaged air conditioner, degraded condenser fragments, salvaged metal angles
La Quotidienne et le frisson (is it being deep or becoming surface?), 2024
Salvaged lottery ticket paper, salvaged cardboard
Citadine Isolation (city girl esters are more sensitive to hydrolysis while city girl ethers are more sensitive to oxidation), 2024
Salvaged polyurethane insulation, repurposed diffusion acrylic, off-cut walnut, beeswax, olive oil
Contaminant Lung (hydrophilic blue scar tissue hug with heirloom), 2024
Salvaged condenser, salvaged polystyrene foam granules/bean bag chair filling, pearl
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The artist acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, and would like to thank Neil Klassen, Thea Yabut, Kelly Jazvac, Karen Lash, Diyar Mayil, jessie beier, Catlin W. Kuzyk, Rixt De Boer, Beth Stuart, Heather Davis, Manel Benchabane, & Kastella Mobilier for their support and contributions. IMAGES BY: Paul Litherland
