Cupboard Love
Cupboard Love Castlefield Gallery Manchester 2003
‘Past memories, present experiences, and future dreams of each person are inextricably linked to the objects that comprise his or her environment.’ 1
Her mother painted it, her husband sanded it. These actions change the appearance of the thing while preserving its identity; they appropriate the object at different stages of its relationships by stamping the identity of the owner on its appearance. Painting and sanding are almost rituals of passage in a relationship with the object spanning two generations.2
Cupboard Love an exhibition of hybrid furniture constructions, paintings and collages shown at Castlefield Gallery Manchester, 2003. was an attempt to make visible the 20th century phenomenon of enforced working class domestic nomadism by looking at the impact of change and evolution on objects over long periods of time and explored the memories/experiences connected with domestic objects. Multi pieces of unrelated furniture from different decades/centuries were combined together to create six new hybrid pieces. Fifty small paintings on paper negotiated the effects of time and memory within real and imagined histories. Susan Walsh
Quotes 1+2 The meaning Of Things - Mihaly Csikszentmihaly+ Eugene Rochburg-Halton
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