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Curated by Sophie Buchmueller <\/span><\/h2>\n

Contributing artists: Eric Capper, Sarah Brophy, Sydney Gush, and Morgan Eldridge<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Fantasy\/Reality\/Decay<\/h1>\n

2022<\/h3>\n

February 16 – March 11<\/h4>\n

SITE 280 Gallery<\/h5>\n

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Curator<\/h3>\n

Sophie Buchmeuller<\/p>\n

Contributing Artists<\/h3>\n

Sydney Gush, Eric Capper, Sarah Brophy, Morgan Elrdige<\/p>\n

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Exhibition Statement as Preserved in the SUGS\/SITE Archives:<\/h3>\n
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Seemingly at the drop of a hat, the corporate office became largely obsolete. With the onset of the pandemic, workers emptied out of downtown business districts and suburban office parks, retreating to work from their kitchen tables or spare bedrooms. Nearly two years later, the office real estate market remains in crisis; as remote work becomes a long term feature of American white collar society, office buildings continue to sit unused. \u201cWhen faced with a totally new situation,\u201d media theorist Marshall McLuhan writes, \u201cwe tend to always attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.\u201d Positioning ourselves at an inflection point, Fantasy \/ Reality \/ Decay explores the corporate office as an impossible space\u2014a setting historically imbued with manifold associations, promises, desires, and frustrations, yet also one whose future no longer holds. How can we, in looking back at the American office, devise alternative ways to interact in this liminal environment?<\/p>\n

Fantasy \/ Reality \/ Decay seeks to distort cultural associations of the office, especially the individualistic, capitalist aspirations of the space and the more mundane\u2014even depressing\u2014qualities of working life. The gallery installation does not accurately recreate a corporate office setting so much as construct immersive situations inspired by its quintessential features, in order to imagine speculative, dreamlike futures for objects left behind when employees evacuated, and propose new models for engaging with them and each other in these failed spaces. The objects assembled within the gallery draw out the dissociations created by such liminal spaces, considering how hopeful fantasies tie into functionality and how unrealized promises lead to decay.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition is a collective endeavor by Sydney Gush, Morgan Eldridge, Eric Capper, Sarah Brophy, and Sophie Buchmueller. Born from an intentionally collaborative process, Fantasy \/ Reality \/ Decay seeks to transform the gallery into a communal and relational environment in which objects, made both by specific artists and collectively, communicate with each other. Not only does this integrated mode of display reflect the show\u2019s curatorial process, but it also conceptually underscores a rejection of the hierarchical, individualistic, alienated nature of capitalist work culture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Programs<\/h3>\n

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To whom it may concern<\/p>\n

Performance by Keny\u00a0De La Pe\u00f1a<\/p>\n

February 24, 4:30-5:30 PM<\/p>\n

280 Gallery<\/p>\n

Program statement from the SUGs\/SITE archive:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Join SITE galleries for an afternoon performance by Keny De La Pe\u00f1a in conjunction with the group exhibition Fantasy \/ Reality \/ Decay<\/em>. The performance can be viewed by visiting the gallery in person, or by tuning into SITE’s Instagram Live.”<\/span><\/p>\n

See clip1<\/a> and clip 2<\/a> of the performances on our Instagram.<\/p>\n

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Exhibition Material<\/h3>\n

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