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Spatial Disruptions
Jennifer Mason
Positioned to capture loads of sunshine
Light Box
1189 x 841 mm
2010

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Spatial Disruptions

Exhibition: 12 Dec – 29 Dec 2010

Suite Gallery

69 Owen street
6021 Wellington

{Suite} Gallery

241 Cuba Street
6011 Wellington

+64 4-976 7663


www.suite.co.nz

Wed-Fri 11-17 . Sat 11-16

Spatial Disruptions
Jennifer Mason
Fixed
Inkjet Print
457 x 304 mm
2010

Jennifer Mason
Spatial Disruptions


12 – 29 December 2010

Spatial Disruptions is concerned with the meaning of formal disorder. Familiar domestic spaces lacking in architectural continuity and figural presence are arranged in such a way as to render them functionless or meaningless. What were once places to inhabit have become a source for formal experimentation.

Walls, windows and cupboards - the stuff of domestication - are composed in almost abstract terms and without recourse to familial themes. Rather than enhancing the innate culture that exists behind the façade of a family home (as Jennifer Mason has done in the past), here Jennifer is interested in the shape, the empty space and the tonality that is inherent within these architectural clusters.

Yet the works still deliberately impart a sense of the domestic. Redundant pot plants and paintings are situated within these spaces as conspicuous vestiges of a human presence, as a reminder of the domestic sub-text. In other words, the works are not entirely ignorant to a parallel reading that points to the soulless monotony of day-to-day domestic existence. These interiors are templates for white suburban culture. But the interiors cannot be lived-in as they are inverted, meaningless rooms that open out into endless voids.

Jennifer has isolated architecture’s capacity to alter the mood of those who exist within it by forcing the viewer to simultaneously inhabit both the work itself and the gallery that inhabits it. In this sense Jennifer is an artist dealing with, in broad terms, experience but also the experience of art and its role as a consumer product. Born 1978, Jennifer lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. Trained in Fine Arts, she also holds a BA from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and has studied at Stony Brook University, New York.

Spatial Disruptions
Jennifer Mason
Soft III
Inkjet Print
457 x 304 mm
2010
Spatial Disruptions
Jennifer Mason
Cut
Inkjet print
457 x 304 mm
2010