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Space Affair November 26 - December 30
ARTIST RECEPTION: Saturday, December 10th 7 to 10pm
SPACE AFFAIR has artist Narine Kchikian exploring the architectural space of the Museum of New Art. Engaging the physical elements of this given space, Kchikian transforms a site that usually houses artwork into artwork. In doing so, she challenge perceptions of architecture and drawing, as well as the notion of art and audience.
"Liquid
architecture is a fluid construction that breathes, pulses, leaps as
one art form and lands as another. It is an architecture with doors
and hallways that lead the visitor both outward and inward. It is a
poetic space that speaks to process. It is an architecture in the
process of making.
SPACE AFFAIR is a seminal model of liquid architecture in the real world.
Such a
manipulation within a constructed space is destabilizing, shifting,
irresolute. The visitor inhabits the space as the space inhabits the
visitor. This uber-construct is a space of simultaneity, a space where
specificity is both heightened and collapsed. Within this space the
artists create an architectural superimposition of place, but where
walls and their intended meaning collide, where presumed expectations
multiply and divide.
SPACE AFFAIR
is the out-of-body embodiment of an architecture, or conversely, it is
the embodiment of a created structure as the embodiment of all that is
possible within that structure."
- Jef Bourgeau from Being There: Finding New Art In All The Old Spaces
regular hours: 12-6pm Thursday through Saturday
MONA is located at 7 N. Saginaw, Pontiac
tel: 248-210-7560 web: detroitmona.com email: detroitmona@aol.com
Drawing You In (click to go)
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received her MFA degree in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA from the College for Creative Studies. Originally from Kazakhstan, she moved to Detroit at the age of sixteen and has been living and working there since. Kchikian has been an active member of the Detroit art community and has been exhibiting her work locally and internationally. Her professional experience includes organizing and curating exhibitions, teaching, conducting seminars and technical demonstrations. She is a recipient of various awards, including invitation to be a guest artist at the Residency in Netherlands. Her work is included in private and corporate collections. In my work I am exploring the existing architecture of the space as a point of departure to the world of created reality. Referencing back to architecture and the human body, I am researching how our mental space interlaces with and is influenced by our occupied environment. In my drawings and site-specific installations I transform the space into a setting that gives different perspectives on common matter and existing details. It becomes a world where it is possible for the imaginary to equal the real.
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