Common Love,
Aesthetics of Becoming
April 27–June 11, 2011
Gedi Sibony
Disguised as Their Material Properties, 2005.
Sticks, cardboard box, tape, wood filler, hollow core door, garbage bag, plastic, medium-density fireboard, carpet; dimensions variable
Installation view
Gedi Sibony similarly turns to poor materials, such as construction debris, in the creation of his work. Disguised as Their Material Properties (2005) alludes to the formal language of Minimalism, while drawing on post-Minimalism's emphasis on the process and precarity of material. In his site-specific work created for Common Love, Sibony's materials become other through their aesthetic framing and spatial arrangement. The work relies on the contingencies of context as well as the relation to its architectural site in order to enhance its perceptual effects.