PAT FOSTER & JEN BEREAN: THE APPROACH
Our work tangentially invites a historical re-reading of the politics of modernism.
Our work responds directly to the spatial condition – to the descending staircase into a
sub-ground exhibition space and to the threshold between the old galleries and the new. It focuses
on notions of verticality and horizontality, and operates on both axes. The form of the sculpture
will appear unfinished; like an abandoned structure it signals an aborted attempt to usurp the
psychological and physical structures that designate space.
The Gallery’s Rietveld chair conjures a specific historical reference, that of De Stijl and
its ideology of socialism and utopianism. The use of this chair to fill in a missing panel within
the structure shifts the chair’s prescribed function, at once underlining its existence as
functional object through its incorporation within a sculptural form and inscribing an alternate
function as a type of stopgap in the surface. Our work tangentially invites an historical
re-reading of the politics of modernism.
PAT FOSTER & JEN BEREAN
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